Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world, but here the earth is the floor of the sky.
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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
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Art should simplify. That is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.
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What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself.
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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
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