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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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"Art is to console those who are broken by life."
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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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"The music world is where child prodigies go to die."
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"Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces."
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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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"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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"Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you."
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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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"Why I write music? Because it hurts not to."
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"I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne."
Education
"You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness."
Courage
"Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs."
Courage
"I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood."
Work
"Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions."
Creativity
"A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it."
Solitude
"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."
Awareness
"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."
Time
"Do you know why I believe in the novel? It's a democratic shout. Anybody can write a great novel, one great novel, almost any amateur off the street. I believe this, George. Some nameless drudge, some desperado with barely a nurtured dream can sit down and find his voice and luck out and do it. Something so angelic it makes your jaw hang open. The spray of talent, the spray of ideas. One thing unlike another, one voice unlike the next. Ambiguities, contradictions, whispers, hints. And this is what you want to destroy."
Literature
"I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation."
Life
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