"...what an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature... (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade you instantly that the paradigmatic artistic experience is that of failure. The actualization fails to meet, equal, the intuition. There is something âout thereâ which cannot be brought âhereâ. This is standard. I donât mean bad artists, I mean good artists. There is no such thing as a âsuccessful artistâ (except, of course, in worldly terms)."
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