"How many times have people used a..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
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“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”
“The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.”
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“If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.”
“Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.”
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