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Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself.

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Michael Ayrton

Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful of metaphors whose spendour rests upon their intonation.

Art, Depiction, Enriched, Life, Metaphor, Rests
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The process of drawing is. . . the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture. . . the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication.

Action, Artist, Becomes, Communication, Drawing, Soliloquy

Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.

Grows, Life, Men, Open, Pride, Vanity

About the fearful sphere which we inhabit, whose centre may be calculated and whose circumference is physically established, there spin metaphors whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference shows itself only through holes in the dark.

Dark, Earth, Holes, May, Physically, Shows

Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine. ' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman has not subsequently been surpassed, and who is to say his contemporaries were wrong?

Architect, Artist, Contemporaries, Reputation, Wrong
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