Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.
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I could not say that I believe. I know I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.
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