"The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation from form and line. Just how far this may go depends on the viewpoint of each painter."

-- Edgar Alwin Payne

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“A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.”

Source : Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster
“I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead”
“Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.”
“I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.”
“I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.”
“The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialization of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.”
“We only think when we are confronted with problems.”
“Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.”

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