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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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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Again never One Shall Single Stories Story Told
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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