Christina Stead Quote

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.


A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973 (ed. 1992)


Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all...

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all...

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all...

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all...