~As an activity and as a final product, drawing can store and generate knowledge. A picture can be at once a repository of information and a record of how the world is investigated through the act of representation. Pamela H. Smith, “Making as Knowing: Craft as Natural...

~A work of art can be seen as violent insofar as it affronts the viewer, defies the established order, or is in conflict with itself. Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced...