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“In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported.”

Home Artist Taken Activity Achievement Happenings Myth Melodrama

Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

“The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.”

World Whole Artist Culture Brain Loneliness Creating Storm Myth Whole World Persistent Castles Primal Battered

Book:Confessions of a conservative

Source: Confessions of a conservative

“We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.”

“And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.”

Feels Should Joy Artist Gains Delight Available Myth Our Society Palette

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.”

Artist Gold Myth Treasure Unconscious Autobiography Dross Greatest Treasure

Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong