"Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence - tearing away the veils that fact acquires through time."

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“I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.”

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