"The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves."

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Source : Willem De Kooning, John Elderfield, Lauren Mahony (2011). “De Kooning: A Retrospective”, p.192, The Museum of Modern Art

Willem de Kooning

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“For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Jul 03, 2011
“Don't you know that boys don't cry?' Adam grinned. 'Shall I tell you something I've only recently discovered,' I replied, not attempting to hide the tears rolling down my face and not the least bit ashamed of them. 'Boys don't cry, but real men do.”
“I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 Iâ€™m yours ghosts and all.”
“If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.”
“It's about being in a race with time - just having a strong sense of mortality, and the idea of, How much time do you have left? How do you want to spend it? What I always come up with is: keep on writing, keep on working. But you can become sterile. It's become a matter of trying to find inspiration someplace outside of my own head, which I've been using exclusively for too long.”

Source : Interview with Jonathan Goldstein, believermag.com. March 1, 2013.
“It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time.”
“I get mail; therefore I am.”
“Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.”

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