Barry Hughart Quotes

“To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.”
― Barry Hughart, The Story of the Stone

“Then she dives out the door - or window, it doesn't matter - to see what wonders the new day will bring, and since Lotus Cloud views the world with the delighted eyes of a child everything is equally marvelous.”
― Barry Hughart, Bridge of Birds