Dieter Roth quotes
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If you can't draw something, just draw it.
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Faced with a choice, do both.
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An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.
-- Dieter Roth
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Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.
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The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing -- it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.
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When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.
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I've never played for a draw in my life.
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I've felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need to.
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All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
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Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.
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My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it.
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If you do the right thing, the right thing will come down the path.
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