What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one.... Itâ€™s this in-between that Iâ€™m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible oneâ€”which is really the realm of the artist.

Federico Fellini

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