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December 21, 2006

the leap in the dark

In my youth days I owed everything to models: without constant contact with admired examples I scarcely ventured on a single step; and yet with time I have come to feel that the whole essence of art is in their deliberate abandonment, in the leap in the dark, the possibility of achieving the new.


Thomas Mann - A Sketch of My Life

Posted by amin at December 21, 2006 4:09 PM