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"The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."
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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"I see my life in terms of music."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir."
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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."
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"History develops, art stands still."
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"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."
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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
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"The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'"
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"I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me."
Act
"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership."
Life
"Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort."
Comfort
"It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one."
Talk
"The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation."
Conversation
"A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life."
Life
"Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time."
Time
"The principle of art is to pause, not bypass."
Art
"I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel."
Time
"I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day."
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