“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.