"Pure drawing is an abstraction."

-- Paul Cezanne

#Drawing Quotes

“The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.”
“The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing.”
“If God made no response except to perfect faith, who could hope for help? But God has regard for beginnings, and His eye perceives greatness in the germ. The hand of the woman in the crowd trembled as it was stretched toward Jesus, and the faith back of it was superstitiously reverent, trusting in the virtue of the robe, rather than in the One who wore it; yet the genuineness of that faith; feeble though it was, triumphed in God's loving sight. Real trust is real power, though the heart and hand be feeble.”

Source : Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”
“I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.”
“Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.”

Source : Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”
“I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.”
“It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.”

Source : Henri Michaux, Robin Magowan (2001). “Ecuador”, p.57, Northwestern University Press
“I never thought that I was very intelligent”

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