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"I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade."
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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."

"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."

"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
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"Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away."

"Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80."

"Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic."

"One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author."

"One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality."

"My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing."
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