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Truth and beauty. That’s what I hope to deliver.

— Joni Mitchell Interview (2021)

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In New York, constantly, the street is challenging you to relate to it.

Interview with Rolling Stone (1979)

I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.

Any time I make a record it's followed by a painting period. It's good crop rotation.

Woman of Heart and Mind: A Life Story (2003)

I've got nervous energy like a kid, still.

Interview (2014)

I like to work myself up to a state of enthusiasm about anything I do, otherwise, what’s the point?

Interview with Rolling Stone (1979)

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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