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"I write to express my love for the humanity."
"The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth."
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"With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public."
"Perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words..."
"But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition- and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation- and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts, to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity- the dead to the living and the living to the unborn."
"Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?"
"Art is a distinct form of human communication. Art interprets experience, sensation, and feelings. An artistic work translates our mental images and allows other people to understand what we feel; art conveys our happiness, sadness, hopes, doubts, anxieties, fears, desires, and ineffable longings."
"Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether."
"Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal."
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