"People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired."

-- John Cage

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“Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.”

Source : Shorter Lyrics of the 20th Century, Introduction
“It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity.”

Source : "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire" by John Toland, (p. 754), 2003.
“Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the work The print and a proper one is the only completed photograph, whether it is specifically shaded for reproduction, or for a museum wall.”
“Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.”
“I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.”
“Wealth and fame can only be so important in the face of musical magic”
“In the absence of fear, there can be no courage.”
“It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.”

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