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It is the duty of every generation of writers and artists to find fresh ways of expressing the habitual circumstances of the human condition. To serve...more

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Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading...more

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The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new ...more

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Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, where every element, however u...more

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Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a litt...more

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And myself? Observe me. There is something to be gained from my surface uses, and perhaps a little more from my lower depths, but my very bottom? That...more

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...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding to fully ...more

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When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.

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You had once asked me if I was afraid of death. I said I was afraid of not living. I don’t want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. Th...more

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Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the art of the past, except as histor...more