"If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating cliches familiar to it. But artists don't address themselves to audiences; they create audiences. The artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is significant, others hear & are affected."

-- Edmund Snow Carpenter

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“And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep. So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams, And into glory peep.”

Source : 'They Are All Gone' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)
“My arm bones looked like chicken bones.”
“The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.”
“Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin.”
“I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.”
“Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one will find people worried about the recent developments here. Scary impressions are important to North Korea because for the last two decades its policy has been, above all, a brilliant exercise in diplomatic blackmail. And blackmail usually works better when the practitioners are seen as irrational and unpredictable.”
“I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.”
“I feel like everything is possible.”

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