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authoritarianism, censorship, and selfcensorship are digging deep into our
cultures and are making it necessary to
clarify that if it is due to convenience or
fear of presidents, producers, editors,
critics, religious leaders, partisans, or
institutions of any sort that arts is not
born from within, it is not inspiring nor
does it beautify with total, formal or
conceptual freedom. Instead of art, it is
nothing more than clown makeup, and
will continue dumbing down and
homogenizing people for centuries to
come. Amen. When the trinity of art is
attained, the road becomes shorter, the
suffering of many lives becomes
concentrated in one, and with peaceful
armor forged from courage and profound
love, the true artist transcends and
ascend in order to take with him or her
two prizes: an exterior one and an
interior one.

In most cases, the exterior one is
incomprehension,
anonymity,
censorship, envy, ingratitude, insanity,
martyrdom, and posthumous fame: the
interior one is freedom, pleasure, joy,
love, peace, inspiration, and neverending light. That is the destiny of all
people: the artist simply relaxes, accepts
it, and faces it with courage. Most others
spend their lives running from the
inevitable and take only the external
prize, illness and death.

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