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Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.


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I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.



What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.



If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.



Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.



Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.

Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.



The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.

The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.



Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.



In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.

In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.



I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.



The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.

The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.





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Having a roof over your head with enough food to eat is a fundamental need of all humans if they are to achieve happiness.



The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.



Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.

Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.



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Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.



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I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.



When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery or anything; I just pull a club and swing.

When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery or anything; I just pull a club and swing.



I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.



You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.

You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.



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You don't need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe. And if its me thats made you feel you should do this..then there's something wrong with me. -Luke Brandon



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I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.




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