"Poetry is devil's wine."
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"Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message."
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"Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare."
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"Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes."
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"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger."
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"My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office."
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"Art moves. Hence its civilizing power."
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"The true artist can only labor con amore."
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"God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art."
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"For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art."
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"The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again."
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"Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards."
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"To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living."
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"An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage."
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"I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road."
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"Life is not an exact science, it is an art."
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"Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art."
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"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."
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"Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it."
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"The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes."
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