"Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know."
"I remember trying not to disrupt everyone else in the room, fumbling around trying to figure out how to use the medium with a beautiful model disrobed in front of me."
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Source: Don Watson (2003). “Death sentence: the decay of public language”, Alfred A. Knopf
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