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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#center #conscious mind #find #i #known

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#art #artist #believes #comes #commissioned

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#difficult #easiest #journalist #most #possible

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film. ↗

— Robert Mayer

#exposed #film #good #good thing #people

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#him #makes #often #proud #seldom

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#evil #good #imagine

No hero is mortal till he dies. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#hero #mortal #till

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#each #equal #member #person #perspective

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#double #him #like #may #most

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

#once #only #part #past #photographed