“A wonderful flaw about human beings is that we’re incapable of making perfect copies. Our failure to copy our heroes is where we discover where our own thing lives. That is how we evolve.”
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“All too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.”
“All the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind.”
“A grain of sand is a moment of creation, and the universe has taken millions of years to create it.”
“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.”
“A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.”
“In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.”
“Human subtlety … will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.”
“Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.”
“The blood jet is poetry, / There is no stopping it.”