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"Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark."

"Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate."

"Beauty is what we have seen and what we are going to see in the future. It is the totality of physical, emotional and biological structures we have created within generations intentionally or unintentionally for our enjoyment and satisfaction. We consider ourselves beautiful, because we have seen it and imagine for thousands of years. If we had five feet, nine eyes and twenty fingers we still were beautiful."

"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"

"Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive."
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"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."

"Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it."

"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."

"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."

"So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful."

"The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste."

"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."

"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

"It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones."
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