be quite clear about your position
10th July 2016 | for Creatives | artist integrity, writing, artists must EXPERIENCE, artist's message, Italo Calvino |
"To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it."
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