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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, , the print the performance.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God’s grandchild.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Well, first of all I’ll say that I come alive best in theater.