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Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

Philip Roth
Art, Temptation, Desire
Philip Roth (1998). “I Married a Communist”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!