The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone. β¨ The Creative Process by James A. Baldwin originally published in The National Culture Center's Creative America, 1962, and later published in James A. Baldwin The Price of the Ticket, 1985.
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