"“Isn’t that what art is?…Making things up?” “No,” she said. “That is commerce—identifying a market and satisfying it. Art is seeing the truth and revealing it, as beautifully and forcefully and honestly as you are able.”"
— Art

January 1, 1970

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Delia Sherman, Gift from a Spring (2008), reprinted in Rich Horton (ed.), The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009 (p. 145; ellipsis represents the elision of a few words for the sake of continuity)