"I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence."

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"Life is not a discrete phenomenon it is a part of an intelligent cosmic field. It is a cosmic dance."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

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"He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

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"But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man."

Tom Robbins, American Author

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"To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality."

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

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"When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them."

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"I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive."

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"An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human."

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"A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him."

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"To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society."

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"Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make."

Name

"One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy."

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"Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information."

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"I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence."

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