Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
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Letter to Henry Miller, 1948Lawrence Durrell
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Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself.
An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide;and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself whoever himself may be is immortal;and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.E. E. Cummings
This is a letter of hate. It is for you my countrymen, I mean those men of my country who have defiled it. The men with manic fingers leading the sightless, feeble, betrayed body of my country to its death.
John Osborne
I learned I'm not the kind of artist that can just sing someone else's songs, for a lot of reasons. I have to have some sort of understanding of the song, or some sort of attachment to it.
Colleen Fitzpatrick
Our country is the world our countrymen are all mankind.
William Lloyd Garrison
What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... Its this in-between that Im calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one which is really the realm of the artist.
Federico Fellini
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