"It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art."

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Samuel R. Delany

#Art Quotes #Artist Quotes #Turns Quotes

“I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...”
“It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.”
“Most of what we know about human evolution comes from these: the fossilized bones of our ancestors. With their help, we've traced our evolution from small furry creatures to the big-brained beings we've become today. But bones can't tell us everything.”
“The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.”
“Itâ€™s very difficult for me to appreciate my own songs as I criticise them a lot.”
“The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.”
“I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.”
“The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth.”

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