If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be. . . to better express … - Witold Gombrowicz

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I'm experimenting and pushing as far as I can. I typically don't know what I was aiming for until I see what I ended up with. Then I can study and choose.

Witold Gombrowicz

If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be. . . to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order. . . to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.

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