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Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin – find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

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A poet’s hope is to write well, and the poet’s art is writing the truth.

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Photography is not about the photographer, it is about what the photographer chooses to show.

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

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You can’t really be an artist if you don’t take the trouble to speak about things that matter.

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Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.

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I have no one style.