Tarr

“But what difference does the attitude of the crowd make to the artist?”

“Well, we were talking about Paris, which is the creation of the crowd. The man thinking in these gardens today, the man thinking on the quays of Amsterdam three centuries ago, think much the same thoughts.

Thought is like climate and chemistry. It even has its physical type. But the individual’s projection of himself he must entrust to his milieu.

I maintain that the artist’s work is nowhere so unsafe as in the hands of an ‘artistic’ vulgarly alive public....”