The great artist must contradict himself. Because contradiction — abominable word when applied to art… — means that the artist gave way to opposite manifestations of his personality. If he not allow himself to be ambiguous, if he does not recognize in himself duality, if he is not able to raise to the summit opposing feelings that will necessarily manifest itself at his core, then he is a minor artist, amputated, or devoid of soul amplitude or simply powerless, limping of expression.
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