📚 A Giacometti Portrait, James Lord: Quotes: Fundamental contradiction in artistic creation
Yet there were moments when I found it psychologically exhausting to be the pretext, as it were, for an effort that acknowledged in advance its own futility but which at the same time insisted that nothing was more valid than to make the effort anyway. This fundamental contradiction arising from the hopeless discrepancy between conception and realization, is at the root of all artistic creation, and it helps to explain the anguish which seems to be an unavoidable component of that experience.