In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new.. they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves.. novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only.. making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec

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They whittled away on the teeth of their catch, over 200 years ago now, sailors bored and fatigued. They plied from primitive ports on the North American continent, their blades shaping the faces of women they missed, ships they had known, captains they had loved and loathed, and mates claimed by the depths. It was slow, exacting and tedious, this carving. But the sailors had the time. Or rather, time had them. 

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Dawn light spills gentle on the entrance of a cave in Chauvet, France, illuminating a stick figure, painted on the wall. An animal: four legs, head, ears, an eye. Looking at this figure is a man, sitting cross-legged by the ambers of a fire. He appears transfixed by the eye of the animal. The eye grows more clear with the increasing focus of a new day.

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