Showing posts with label George Bernard Shaw. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Bernard Shaw. Show all posts

Thursday, January 28, 2010

The true artist

A quote from George Bernard Shaw, which I stumbled upon in a comment on Word Garden:
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
What do you think? Must an artist renounce all other responsibilities to be a real artist?