"Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify."

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If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream-a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows-is essentially poetry.

— Michel Leiris