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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."

"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."

"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
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"First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard."

"And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love."

"But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating."

"And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment."

"And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color."

"You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex."

"There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else."
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