For me, drawing is research into thinking rather than an investigation of perception. Before I have drawn the drawings, they are often as terse and compact as thought. It is interesting to look at yourself as if from the outside while you draw, how the thoughts that you reproduce are partially visual and partially linguistic. The beauty of a drawing is that you can pick it up as an image in thought, but as soon as you want to capture the image conceptually, it becomes spherical, and thought can no longer throw light on it from all sides at the same time.  Often, drawings are nothing more than some little gestures captured on paper. They are nothing more than black powder that has stuck to the sheet, but they can evoke a specific language for the viewer, a language that touches on things that are important in life—and all this in a free and easy manner. I would love to be able to see my drawings as my viewers do. I think it would be interesting to try, as a viewer, to conjure up the mental image that preceded the drawing. A drawing is a transparent membrane suspended between the artist and the viewer for comparison.