That's why Picasso could draw a flamingo with a single unbroken line. The line does not resemble a flamingo, it represents it in a way anyone looking at the drawing can intuitively decode. Drawing is a two-part transformation: distilling an image from one mind into symbols that can be reassembled by another.
Drawing is all of these things and more. (2/3)
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