"Drawing is an idea more than fact."

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Source : Jack Shadbolt (1968). “In search of form”

Jack Shadbolt

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“There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.222, Macmillan
“I'm releasing a single. It's called 'Live it Up.' It was based on my Euro trip. I only write my own music. I don't let other people write it at all. So I've been working on that a lot. There's three singles coming out. The producer of The Fray who did their double-platinum album 'How to Save a Life,' I'm working with him. He's producing me.”
“I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.”
“When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.”
“A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.”
“Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.”
“No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you're all tragic.”
“And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.”

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