For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

The zoo cannot but disappoint.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.