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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

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

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.