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"But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything."
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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."
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"There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you."
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"Music gives strength to the spirit."
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"Be an artist in everything you do."
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"Let us play the flute of love to spread the music of peace, joy and happiness."
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"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions."
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"Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart."
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"Be an artist, see the beauty not only with your eyes but also with your heart."
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"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."
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"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."
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"I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time."
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"People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is."
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"My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public."
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"However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really."
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"No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural."
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"The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture."
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"But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything."
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"I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one."
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"Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it."
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"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
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