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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.

Source: Painting and Guns, The Creative Observer (1992).
-- William S Burroughs, (Feb 5 1914-1997), US writer; He was a chief spokesman for the beat movement, 1950s; wrote Naked Lunch, 1959.

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