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ARTIST ‡ POTTER ‡ POET
“‘I am an artist’ which I won’t take back because it’s self-evident that what the word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying ‘I know all about it, I’ve already found it.’ As far as I am concerned, the word means, ‘I am looking, I am hunting for it, I am deeply involved.’”
— Vincent van Gogh May 1882 from The Letters of Vincent van Gogh, Penguin Classics.
