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"A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute."
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"Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you."
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"In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings; had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like any artist with no art from, she became dangerous."
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"The music world is where child prodigies go to die."
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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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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"Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression."
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"By(e) pen, I've tried my hand at poetry; only to see how boring it is to me. That is, unless I get a chance to destroy each and every piece while doing it as I please."
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"I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself."
Philosophy
"Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors."
Nothing
"It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe."
American
"Night came on, the lamps were lighted, the tables near him found occupants, and Paris began to wear that peculiar evening look of hers which seems to say, in the flare of windows and theatre-doors, and the muffled rumble of swift-rolling carriages, that this is no world for you unless you have your pockets lined and your scruples drugged."
Wealth
"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
History
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
Life
"There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition."
Emotional
"It's time to start living the life you've imagined."
Motivation
"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."
Life
"He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must be found either in action, of some immensely solid kind, on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts."
Creativity
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