"I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people."
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"I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since."
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"My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office."
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"I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow."
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"When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling."
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"I am the only candidate capable of delivering these three things as prime minister, and tonight it is clear that I am also the only one capable of drawing support from the whole of the Conservative party."
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"See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors."
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"The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement."
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"There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing."
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"Today, although as a whole, the industry is still male-dominated, more women are drawing comics than ever before, and there are more venues for them to see their work in print. In the 1950s, when the comic industry hit an all-time low, there was no place for women to go. Today, because of graphic novels, there's no place for aspiring women cartoonists to go but forward."
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"I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It's closest to the choreography of a bee. You're freer."
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"There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats."
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"If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one."
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"Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?"
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"If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it."
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"Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about – is apparently immortal."
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"Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at."
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"When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them."
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"Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it."
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"But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near."
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