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I quit smoking in December. I’m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss light...

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I was lucky to live in New York when it was dangerous and edgy and cheap enough to play host to youn...

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Edmund WhiteCity Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s

Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, o...

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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.

Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.

Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat ...

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Kevin SmithTough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat

Where the Divine and the Human Meet" shows how important it is to meet the world with the creativity...

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Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece wi...

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Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.

In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.