"A writer or any artist can’t expect to be embraced by the people. I've done records where it seemed like no one listened to them. You write poetry boo...












I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

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"He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.
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"...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not...
"Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought...