"An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation"

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Source : Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.186, Vintage

Lewis Hyde

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“Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all.”
“I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could play an art critic-I could play the guy next door. I am the guy next door. I could play Catholic, Jewish, Protestant. As a matter of fact, when I did The Odd Couple, I would do it a different way each night. On Monday I'd be Jewish, Tuesday Italian, Wednesday Irish-German-and I would mix them up. I did that to amuse myself, and it always worked.”
“I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.”

Source : "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.
“Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.”
“When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!”
“L.A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don't get through a week or two and then, the audience kind of disappears.”
“It's one of those magical acts that is so poly-sensorial and culturally enriching that as a designer one is naturally drawn to the cult of the object”
“The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket."”

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