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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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"A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute."
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"Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you."
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"The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch."
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"And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello."
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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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"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."
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"Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression."
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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."
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"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."
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"There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking."
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"Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's."
Creation
"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
Beauty
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
Information
"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
Civilization
"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
Evil
"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
Reason
"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."
Criticism
"The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race."
Trust
"I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual."
Faith
"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."
Faith
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