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“Because that’s what a comic is, ultimately: a collection of pages. It’s not a flatpanel or a touchscreen, even though that’s where it might eventually be displayed. It’s a page.”

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“Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation.”

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“Colour is a matter of personal opinion.”

Book:A Bed in Heaven

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“[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,”

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Book:Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

Source: Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

“Why do men have nipples? Because God is a woman and she really wants us to enjoy ourselves, that's why.”

Book:Passionate Thirst

Source: Passionate Thirst

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Book:Furious Improvisation: How the Wpa and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times

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