Press: I Can Draw, But. . .

"I don't know how it happened. Drawing is not a process of clear and deliberate thinking, it seems to me a function of eyes and nerves. . . . As a centipede may not be quite aware which of its limbs it puts forth first and which is to follow, I am quite unable to explain to myself why I draw a line one way and not another. It always seems to me compelling, as if it could not possibly be different—but I never know why. Let physiologists and psychologists explain the mechanical functions and the psychic impulses that originate art....

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