When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds onto you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. The function of art is to renew our perception.