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Quote by James Baldwin
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin

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If youre treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real theyre real for you whether theyre real or not. – James Baldwin

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Society
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. – James Baldwin

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. – James Baldwin

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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. – Ludwig van Beethoven

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People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when its simply necessary to love. – Claude Monet

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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. – Leo Tolstoy

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