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— Katherine Anne Porter"Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living in cellars and starving is better for an artist than it is for anybody else."
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Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.
— Francis Bacon
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people like to keep their little secrets to themselves. It's like growing mushrooms in the cellar and running down to take a look at them now and then.
— Marjorie Kellogg
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