"Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid."

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Gustavo Perez Firmat

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“Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything, young painters and sculptors need to know the works of their immediate elders. Such a continuity does not exist here to a sufficient degree in the visual arts.”
“What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.”
“I don't want to tell what the songs are about for me, because then people can't decide for themselves, which is why I write; it's for you to find your own meaning in. For me it's my story, for someone else it's theirs; if I tell exactly what it means, then it's only my story.”
“Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.”
“There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such self-exculpatory histories cannot be written.”

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“I had an attachment disorder.”
“In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.”
“We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.”

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