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"I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made."
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"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."
"The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of passing or having passed, or hoping to pass, through certain intense human emotions. It was a phenomenon of orientation rather than of art, thus comparable to stripes of paint on a roadside rock or to a pillared heap of stones marking a mountain trail. But then, in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members. Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years, used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time."
"The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness."
"Let music ignite your vivid inner colors and bring you harmony inside and out."
"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."
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"Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil."
"People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography."
"I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence."
"If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers."
"I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it."
"Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love."
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