"An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality."

-- Robert Motherwell

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“Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.”

Source : "Opinion: literary and commercial writers should lay down their arms" by Sara Sheridan, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2011.
“There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect.”
“I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.”
“Now, almost twenty years since my last job in book publishing, I know that there are far more socially inept people in book than in magazine publishing. At the time, however, I just didn't feel I was enough: smart enough, savvy enough, well read enough, educated enough, charming enough. Much of this was probably because I was very naive, and didn't really know how to behave in an office. This made me a terrible assistant, which in turn made me a terrible junior book editor.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.
“there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.”
“Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.”
“I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the fundamental structure of the world, where we somehow assume that, because ordinary experience involves middle-sized objects in space and time, that fundamental reality must be essentially like that.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.”

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