The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.
Soseki NatsumeAn artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.
Soseki NatsumeLoneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.
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