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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

Poetry is life distilled.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel – not the way others think you should feel.