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"I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement."
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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."
"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."
"The essence of art is that its one case applies to thousands,' knew Schopenhauer."
"A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art."
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"I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up."
"The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards."
"Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit."
"The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep."
"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."
"I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am."
"I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action."
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