“Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.”
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet
“Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.”
Dessins (1924), as quoted by Pierre Chanel in "A Thousand Flashes of Genius", Jean Cocteau and the French Scene (1984)
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