You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art. (Toni Morrison)

You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.

Toni Morrison

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