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   To Paint is to Love Again: Including Semblance of a Devoted Past

   Henry Miller

   “To paint is to love again. It’s only when we look with eyes of love that we see as the painter sees. His is a love, moreover, which is free of possessiveness. What the painter sees he is duty-bound to share. Usually he makes us see and feel what ordinarily we ignore or are immune to. His manner of approaching the world tells us, in effect, that nothing is vile or hideous, nothing is stale, flat and unpalatable unless it be our own power of vision. To see is not merely to look. One must look-see. See into and around.”

   Henry Miller on art, how hobbies enrich us, and why good friends are vital to the creative spirit – sublime forgotten gem from 1967:

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