All That We See or Seem Quotes

“Very few artists can resist for long the relentless pressure to move from having fun to having an audience, to go from being validated by one’s own childlike wonder to craving the attention of others: awards, fame, money. There is so little certainty in art, so few ways to concretely judge where you are, that the hunger for approval, for the magic that comes from having sold, from being desired by many, becomes the polestar by which all steer.”
― Ken Liu, All That We See or Seem