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A writer should be able to express himself easily, naturally, copiously, in a form which frees his mind, his energies. Why should he hobble himself with formalities?
-Saul Bellow
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To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.
-Giorgio de Chirico

Tell him that my great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.
-Van Gogh responding to the criticism that his figures were not "correct"

When I have arranged a bouquet in order to paint it, I go round to the side I have not looked at.
-Renoir

Windows have always interested me because they are a passageway between the exterior and the interior.
-Matisse

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