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Art Quotes

"Life isn’t a support system for art; it’s the other way around"

"Love is the poetry of the senses"

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light"

"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture."

"Poetry is an act of peace"

"I think there is beauty in everything. What ‘normal’ people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it."

"The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of"

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival"

"In chess, one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge"

"Literature is news that stays news."

"To draw you must close your eyes and sing."

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home"

"We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds"

"I am not one of those who believe that taking drugs produces a permanent bettering of the human mind. Every great writer, every genuine artist, has had the experience of being intoxicated by language."

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