A blue-and-pink double-ended pencil balanced horizontally on a semicircular support against a soft gray background.

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Billy Madison

I drew the duck blue because I never have seen a blue duck and I want to see a blue duck.

— Billy Madison · 1995

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker explains drawing a blue duck as a way to see something they have never encountered. The wish itself supplies the reason for the colour choice. The line presents imagination as permission to create an unfamiliar sight, without needing the picture to match previous experience.

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