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"On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters."
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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."

"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."

"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."

"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."

"The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature."
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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."

"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."

"Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature."

"One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us."
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