J. D. Salinger quote: I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death ...

I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human consciousness.

~ J. D. Salinger ~

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