So why did poor artists originally hang around in cafes?"" I don't know. Inspiration from the atmosphere."" Ha! No, you've been tricked, too, just like the rest of us. Cafes didn't have inspirational atmosphere at first. That only came later, when you knew artists had been hanging around in them. Arthur Phillips
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Artists are not the only people who like to hang around cafes to get their creative juices flowing. We all do it too, but maybe we don't know that. We're tricked into thinking that artists are the only ones who benefit from being around so many creative people. But, in fact, everyone does. Everybody who comes to the cafe eventually finds themselves inspired by the atmosphere of inspiration there.

Source: Prague

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