…drawing derives from drawing. My line wants to remind constantly that it’s made of ink. I appeal to the complicity of my reader who will transform this line into meaning by using our common background of culture, history, poetry….The reader, by following my line with his eyes, becomes a draftsman.

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The whole history of art influenced me: Egyptian paintings, latrine drawings, primitive and insane art, Seurat, children’s drawings, embroidery, Paul Klee. But I also liked all sorts of disreputable things like cartoons and advertising art. A big influence on me has been the study and the discipline of architecture—the combination of precision, draftsmanship and reason. Architecture is the most noble, difficult and philosophical branch of the arts.

Holy crap, is this a treasure. For more Steinberg on Steinberg, see REFLECTIONS AND SHADOWS.