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Quotation by William Burroughs
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.
William Burroughs (b. 1914), U.S. author. "The Creative Observer," Painting and Guns (1992).
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