Arthur Phillips Quotes

So why did poor artists originally hang around in cafes?"

"I don't know. Inspiration from the atmosphere."

"Ha! No, you've been tricked, too, just like the rest of us. Cafes didn't have inspirational atmosphere at first. That only came later, when you knew artists had been hanging around in them.

The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.