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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Calculate Destination Draws Invisible Make Observed Something Visible
The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Back Herself Love Offer Price Product Publicity Stealing
The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Animal Look Offer Opportunity Public Purpose Visitor Zoos
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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Before Century Poverty Priorities Result Scarcity Set World
Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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Art Become Enduring Function Gut Honor Invisible Meeting Place
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Beauty Condemned Display Dresses Naked Nue Place
We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Enclose Follow Inside Message Order Ourselves Song
The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Confine Difficulty Dog Dream Human Imagination Live Materialist Philosophy Practice Strict
Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Death Flirting Flow Life Photography
You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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According Event Events Plan Plans
Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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Beloved Clothes Home Honeycomb Like Lip Milk Smell Tongue
The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Century Close Disappear Helpless Horizon Other People See
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Age Believe City Every Nothing Sex Teenager
Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Animal Born Distinguish Men Relationship Symbol Yet
Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Constellation First Invented Named Night Sky Star Storyteller
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Artist Disaster Failure Mean Necessary Perfection Time Ultimate

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