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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

"I see my life in terms of music."

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore."

"Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests."

"The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever."
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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""

"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."

"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."

"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."

"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question."

"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."
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