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"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."
"The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of passing or having passed, or hoping to pass, through certain intense human emotions. It was a phenomenon of orientation rather than of art, thus comparable to stripes of paint on a roadside rock or to a pillared heap of stones marking a mountain trail. But then, in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members. Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years, used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time."
"The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness."
"Let music ignite your vivid inner colors and bring you harmony inside and out."
"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."
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"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."
"In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute."
"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient."
"Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten."
"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."
"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."
"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."
"I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me."
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