C.D. WrightThe artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
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The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile. To have to attack the existing culture and state by proclaiming your own - rather than accepting the existing culture and state - is a tremendous price to pay. But it is also a price that has been paid by artists throughout history, from Socrates and Jesus, to Goethe and John Cage, to William Blake and Michelangelo.
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