First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Eventually with success I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this he knows where the danger is.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself prisoner of style prisoner of reputation prisoner of success etc.

I think every artist should follow their vision their hearts is what they need to reveal not something that society is looking out for.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

My role in society or any artist's or poet's role is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher not as a leader but as a reflection of us all.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science we must educate our masters labour and capital in art.