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"Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man."
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"The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch."
"Art is to console those who are broken by life."
"And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello."
"Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces."
"Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression."
"5.57am and I'm finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper. Inhale, exhale, it doesn't get much easier."
"In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art."
"He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands."
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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands."
"I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind."
"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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