I, The Divine

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I don’t believe artists know half the time what they are creating. Oh yes, all the tralala, the technique — that’s another matter. But like ordinary people who get out of bed, wash their faces, comb their hair, cut the tops of their boiled eggs, they don’t act, they’re instruments which are played on, or vessels which are filled — in many cases only with longing.

— PATRICK WHITE, The Vivisector