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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.

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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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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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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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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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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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