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"He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle."
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"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically."
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"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail."
"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."
"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it."
"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
"One must act in painting as in life, directly."
"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong."
"I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining."
"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."
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