I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a …

Kurt Vonnegut
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I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.' ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1987). Bluebeard: A Novel, New York : Delacorte Press
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