“Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.”
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
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