Florence, Italy, Summer 1982

‘God creates us in his own image – which is as much as to say that man does.  Ask a child to draw a picture of a person and that child will most probably draw a representation of himself or herself.  How, as an artist – and artists are simply highly sophisticated children – to get away from the problem of projecting mere narcissism into whatever one creates?  The answer lies in the words of Albert Camus:  the artist must repeat the image not of himself but “of his own condition”.’

Journal, Saturday 31st July 1982

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