On a possibly not entirely unrelated note, the bit that came home most in Amadeus was when the dying Mozart says to the person he thinks is Death, 'I know I haven't written anything good yet.' Though I doubt the real Mozart ever thought any such thing, that line strikes to the heart of what being an artist is about- the gap between what you conceive and what you produce.
On a possibly not entirely unrelated note, the bit that came home most in Amadeus was when the dying Mozart says to the person he thinks is Death, 'I know I haven't written anything good yet.' Though I doubt the real Mozart ever thought any such thing, that line strikes to the heart of what being an artist is about- the gap between what you conceive and what you produce.
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