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"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
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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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"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."

"Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?"

"America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there."

"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."
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