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Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures; so that in what might have been the ripe period of his art he had nothing left but ideas. A man who has nothing left but ideas may be of great service to his friends, but he is of no use at all to himself. Emile was certainly an inspiration to his friends.

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Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes.

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The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It doesn't have to be an accurate drawing, but it has to stand for an observation, not something that is abstract, like an emotion.

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I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at bay.

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I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.

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The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning. . . The ethical and moral questions. . . in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process

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It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.

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