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You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should ...more

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Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in ...more

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Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to y...more

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Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.

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Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection,...more

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Art is childhood.

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There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it to this test: Does it stretch out its roots in th...more

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In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spread...more

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And in fact the artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just dif...more