Salvador Dali talks about himself, his critics, and his work in a 1966 interview originally telecast on the CBC:
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Archives for August 17, 2015
Almanac: Tom Stoppard on artists
“I repeat—how can the artist justify himself? The answer is that he cannot, and should stop boring himself with his egocentric need to try. The artist is a lucky dog. That is all there is to say about him. In any community of a thousand souls there will be nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky dog painting or writing about the other nine hundred and ninety-nine.”
Tom Stoppard, Artist Descending a Staircase