• 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.

  William S. Burroughs
  American writer and artist 1914-1997
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. observation
2. observing
3. creative
4. viewing
5. making
6. people

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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. by : William S. Burroughs

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