The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight , feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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