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# Artists Never Know Their Importance
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/artists-never-know-their-importance/
- Published: 2015-08-17T11:00:34.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:47:56.000Z
- Description: I know it's not good to romanticize the whole "sad tortured artist" thing …
- Author: Lauren Purje
- Tags: Comics, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:08 (2014, 2015, part 2)

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