I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
— Stanley Kubrick Modern

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Quoting Isaac Newton, but often used to describe his own artistic process in interviews

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/83482-however-vast-the-darkness-we-must-supply-…

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