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I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

There's just a feeling you get from certain things you do in life that just kind of feel pure and independent of what's actually, physically, going on.

The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.