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"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint."
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"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ['Give me more images']"
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"For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose."
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"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
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"At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air."
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"My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep."
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"Creativity is the residue of time wasted."
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"I do not attachany exaggerated importance to my poetical works. Life isthere to be lived rather than to be written about. My aimis to search out the manifold experience that it offers,wringing from each moment what of emotion it presents.I look upon my writing as a graceful accomplishmentwhich does not absorb but rather adds pleasure toexistence. And as for posterity-damn posterity."
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"I have spent a good many years since-too many, I think-being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all."
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"He kept seeing the brains dribbling down the wallpaper. It wasn't the killing that stayed on his mind, it was the spilled talent. A lifetime of honing and shaping torn apart in less than a second. All those stories, all those images, and what came out looked like so much oatmeal. What was the point?"
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"When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain."
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"I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!"
Philosophy
"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things."
Humor
"It took me a lifetime."
Tension
"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal."
Creativity
"What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing."
Action
"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time."
Life
"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
Humor
"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."
Creativity
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."
Inspirational
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
Wisdom
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