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"This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale."
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"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."

"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."

"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

"There are two types of egoism: one is living and other one is lifeless. As long as the living egoism is there, one can never attain the awareness of the Self (Atma)."

"I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living."

"When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure."
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"If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas."

"Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness."

"And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space."

"This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale."
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