"Art is a step from what is..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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“One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.”
“Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.”
“When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.”