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The ideas an artist believes are radically their own are illusions: whatever they thought was original had already been said, and said better.
Drawn from what Nick Cave said, then moved away from
What Nick Cave actually said
- Nick Cave Australian songwriter and writer
Recalls holdingBack then I thought I was remaking the world, tearing down the old and erecting something new in its place.
Their words nowIt took me many years to learn that my so-called original ideas were illusions born of naivety, pride, and self-importance.
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