“This is a familiar syndrome. There is a stage with every drawing or painting when it looks banal and clumsy. It's worth pushing through that, working through the cliché to find out what made it a cliché in the first place.”
Antony Sher
Year of the King: An Actor's Diary and Sketchbook
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