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" The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. "
Flannery O'Connor
Both
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" Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. "
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" The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. "
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