The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
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They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
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Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.
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