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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

=What the job is.=

Rikki Ducornet: It is the work of the writer to move beyond the simple definitions or descriptions of things—which is of limited interest after all—and bring a dream to life through the alchemy of language; to move from the street—the place of received ideas—into the forest—the place of the unknown.

Frank Auerbach: To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

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