Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.
We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.
I've dated many different types. I was all over the map. For me, it was learning about being attracted to the right things in a person, not the wrong things.
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.
But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.
I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?
Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted.
Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation
