The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him …

Henry Miller
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The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. ✨ Henry Miller (1961). The Cosmological Eye, p.168, New Directions Publishing
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