"We must cling only to drawing."

-- Nicolas de Stael

#Drawing Quotes

“I don't think it's ever hard to punch someone in the face who's just punched you in the face. I would say that anyone who thinks they can walk up to someone and punch them in the face without getting punched back is an idiot. At the end of the day, if someone came up here and punched you, trust me, you would fight back. That is just basic survival.”
“It is this impulse to change the quality of experience that I recognize as central to creation. . . . Out of all that could be done, you choose one thing. What that one thing is, nothing else can tell you--you come at it over unmarked snow.”
“I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.”
“And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him.”
“One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.”
“Maybe radicalization is much more of a problem these days than cult participation. They're pretty close to each other. But in order to understand why someone would sign onto something like this, you have to see the good.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“People recognise me when I'm holiday on the beach.”
“For me, painting means the continuation of dreaming by other means.”

Source : "Back to the Figure" by Paul Trachtman, www.smithsonianmag.com. October 2007.

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