لا يستطيع الفنان أن يستغني عن جمهور؛ فإذا غاب الجمهور، فماذا يفعل؟ يخترعه، ويولّي ظهره لعصره، ويتطلّع إلى المستقبل ليجد ما يحرمه منه الحاضر.

“An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.”Andre Gide — Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (2017)