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"In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art."
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"By(e) pen, I've tried my hand at poetry; only to see how boring it is to me. That is, unless I get a chance to destroy each and every piece while doing it as I please."
"I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career."
"Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you."
"He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands."
"5.57am and I'm finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper. Inhale, exhale, it doesn't get much easier."
"All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it."
"Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces."
"I like to think I've written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters."
"Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression."
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"But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak."
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"Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour."
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