“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]”
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[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]”
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“Artists are those who can evade the verbose.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
― The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
“You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.”
― Woodcutters
― Woodcutters
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