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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."

"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."

"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
Explore more quotes by Stephen Stills

"There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players."

"I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away."

"There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature."

"Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross."

"I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms."

"An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist."

"God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it."

"Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records."

"I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar."
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