"The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in."
"To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own."
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Source: Henry Green (1992). “Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green”, Random House (UK)
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