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Quote by Erich Fromm
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it i

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. – Erich Fromm

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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? – Erich Fromm

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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. – Erich Fromm

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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust. – Alan Rickman

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. – Pablo Picasso

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I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste. – Jerry Saltz

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[I]t was a hymn to the beauty of the human form… and the praise of Nature, sublime, indifferent, lovely, and cruel. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

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The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them. – Norman Spinrad

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In the case of my book, I dont think its really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom hes enjoyed a sexual experience, etc. – Edmund White

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Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. – Adrian Mitchell

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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows. – Edward Koch

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