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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination. - Quote by Orhan Pamuk

What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.

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