"What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future."

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I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive person, the artist, the impressionable person, the person whose raison d'etre is to incarnate the creative will, rather than to just make money, and yet that extreme difficulty that the culture poses for us has created some of the best artists in the last hundred years.

— Hubert Selby, Jr.