My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be … - Malcolm Gladwell

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I know how it feels when you're coming into a new situation, that the other guys won the election.

Malcolm Gladwell

My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have your own personal vision that you will put on the page or the canvas or the screen, no matter what people say, but it requires a radical sensitivity. You have to be completely open to what the world is telling you, to what your audience tells you. And balancing those two things is nearly impossible.

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