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Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.
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James Huneker
Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.
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The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. he must become an artist. that means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. he must know what he is doing
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The problem with success is that you lose the capacity to fail and the capacity to surprise people. so, if i'm able to surprise myself every day, i can surprise you as well. if i enjoy someone's work and they offer me their project, i do it. so what's the point of the supposed creativity? if mona lisa could be made by anyone, then it wouldn't have been the most beautiful painting in the world. the knowledge that you can fail can make you come first.
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I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time. and then you can really surprise yourself. there's that cliche, "no surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader!"
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There questions of wanting to be an artist, and what does that mean, what makes you an artist? are you an artist if you're in a gallery in new york and not an artist if you're doing it at home? do you need legitimation to count? if you've been acculturated to believe that you have certain obligations - familial, social, human - if multitasking has been your forte and that's what's been praised and rewarded, where do you find the single-mindedness, the selfishness to do something like art? i think those are questions that arise differently for women and for men.
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