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"In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in."
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"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."
"Be an artist in everything you do."
"The writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever."
"In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up."
"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
"There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art."
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"As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion."
"One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space."
"Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life."
"When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive."
"I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea."
"The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another."
"Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another."
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