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Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There is no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable, (Jan 0 1921-2013), US critic, editor; She was an architecture critic for the NY Times, 1963-82; won Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism, 1970; wrote Pier Luigi Nervi, 1960.

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