“I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.”
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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.
It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.