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"I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."

"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh"

"What doesn't kill me provides writing material."

"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."

"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."

"If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain..."
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"In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in."


"Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another."


"Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that."


"One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space."


"When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive."
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