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"It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes."

Elias Canetti, Swiss Author
Creativity, Idea
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"It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes."

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"All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams."
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"A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice."
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"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
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"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."
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"Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently."
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"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you."
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"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."

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"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail."

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"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."

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"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist
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"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher
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"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."

Robert Frost, American Poet
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"One must act in painting as in life, directly."

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"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong."

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"Art is the objectification of feeling."

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