Return to Real

Something else along similar lines, this time taken from an interview with the writer Philip Pulman in the Financial Times.

” That is exactly what I miss with the internet. Moving a little mouse about and seeing a cursor zipping down a screen – it is not satisfying. I would infinitely rather draw something – there is more pleasure in moving a pencil across the slightly resistant but also slightly forgiving surface of roughened paper, the pleasure of seeing a drop of paint on a wet brush bloom as it touches your paper. I like a sensuous engagement with things.”

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