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The Problem of Artistic Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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The main problem which I wish to discuss in this paper may be set out in the form of a very simple question. It is this: What makes an artist—whether he be painter, sculptor, musician, poet, or anything else—desire to produce a work of art and to go on working until he has done so?

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1930

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