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• Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self.…
• It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
• Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world,…
• Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.
• Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
• There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
• Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.
• I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and…
• Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?
• One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must…
• Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people,…
• Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

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