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"I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object."
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"I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugliness in it. I would wear pink because I hated gray, I didn't deserve white, and I was sick of black."
"Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language."
"They wore their strange beauty like war paint."
"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."
"We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends."
"There is nothing more beautiful than the light of a Candle and the Aroma of it's Heart."
"Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics."
"Purposefully look for something beautiful today."
"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow."
"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity " I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly."
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"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
"The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon."
"He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment."
"The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over."
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