"The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture... the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication."

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Source : Michael Ayrton (1962). “Drawing and Sculpture”

Michael Ayrton

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“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.”
“Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.”
“I love making genre films. It's something I've really been attracted to since I was a kid, mostly because, as a kid, it was forbidden fruit.”
“It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.”
“You can’t have a normal practice with nine skaters, Until we have more than nine guys, it’s not going to be a regular practice.”
“There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others have more than one. These worlds are at irregular distances, more in one direction and less in another, and some are flourishing, others declining. Here they come into being, there they die, and they are distroyed by collision with one another. Some of the worlds have no animal or vegetable life nor any water.”
“The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.”
“Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.”

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