A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
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People who see a drawing in the New Yorker will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they see it in a museum, they think it is artistic and if they find it in a fortune cookie they think it is a prediction.Saul Steinberg
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
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The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
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I think, therefore Descartes exists.
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