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Inspiration always arrives unannounced.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say, Of course those who write short books have even less to say.
Poetry and aesthetics are far more enthralling than $@$.
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
We're in the middle of a revolution, Jude. And what are you doing? Doodles and cartoons?
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
Everything is gestation and then birthing.
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
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