"By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom."

-- Leo Strauss

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“Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.”
“I think art, at best, holds up a mirror to humanity.”
“We may not have a sample size larger than one, or we may not have unlimited resources - it's a TV show, and we generally turn these things around in about a week or so.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone".”
“In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like itâ€¦ Maybe I was irresponsible. But part of the pleasure of being alive is that I didnâ€™t take everything as seriously as one should.”

Source : "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.
“He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the...he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him.”

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“Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.”
“When your entire life is focused around one goal and one goal only, and you have no other pursuits, it enables you to achieve enormous mastery.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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