The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. Success is dangerous. It leads to sterility.
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
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