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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.

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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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