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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I’ve a call.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

Every artist was first an amateur.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.