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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirm...more

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The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.

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God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.