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"Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose."
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"When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: 'This is for my benefit."
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"You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy."
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"When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me."
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"Let all of life be an unfettered howl."
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"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
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"They may not like what you have to say, but it is better to express how you feel."
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"I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all."
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"I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!"
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"America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing."
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"America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?"
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"Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country."
Nation

"I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree."
Night

"One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work."
Love

"The days you work are the best days."
Work

"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time."
Friendship

"I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint."
People

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."
Time

"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty."
Beauty

"I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."
Creativity

"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage."
Courage
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