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Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

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Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

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Long you must suffer, knowing not what,until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you.Then you will love almo...more

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Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

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Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to y...more

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Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held ...more

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Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.

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For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,because it serenely disdains to destroy us.Ev...more

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Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection,...more

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Art is childhood.

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There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it to this test: Does it stretch out its roots in th...more

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If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as...more

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How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn int...more

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And in fact the artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just dif...more

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Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a...more