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“The crows assert that a single crow could destroy the heavens. This is certainly true, but it proves nothing against the heavens, because heaven means precisely: the impossibility of crows.”
― Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

“Art is the proper task of life. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
― Diane Arbus

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
― Gertrude Stein

“You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place
between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting...

It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”
― Gertrude Stein

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“You have to know what you want to get it.”
― Gertrude Stein

“A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.”
― Gertrude Stein

“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”
― Gertrude Stein

“There is no there there.”
― Gertrude Stein

“What is the answer?"
[ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ]
In that case, what is the question?”
― Gertrude Stein

“Affectations can be dangerous.”
― Gertrude Stein

“I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.”
― Antonin Artaud

“I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself”
― Antonin Artaud, The Theater and Its Double

“In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.”
― Antonin Artaud, The Theater and Its Double