“and I try
to draw the line
but it ends up running down the middle of me
most of the time.”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
Source: Ani DiFranco: Verses
“Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.”
Quote (1964); as quoted in Picasso and Company (trans. 1966) by Gyula Brassaï
1960s
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Context: That had not been the first time nor had it been the last, but all the years of killing boiled down in essence to that single moment — not the time that came after, but that long and terrible instant when he had watched the lines of men purposefully striding up the slope to kill him.
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