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> [The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-coutts-smith/the-revelatory-or-visionary-is-the-province-of-the-private-artist-who/)

[Kenneth Coutts-Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-coutts-smith/)

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## More by Kenneth Coutts-Smith

> [The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-coutts-smith/the-public-artist-confirms-the-world-that-we-already-accept-though-he/)

[Kenneth Coutts-Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-coutts-smith/)

> [The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-coutts-smith/the-revelatory-or-visionary-is-the-province-of-the-private-artist-who/)

[Kenneth Coutts-Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-coutts-smith/)

> [ The language of images \[of inner-oriented artists\] does not follow a code structure that is evident and widely accepted, but is more likely to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-coutts-smith/the-language-of-images-of-inner-oriented-artists-does-not-follow-a/)

[Kenneth Coutts-Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-coutts-smith/)

> [Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-coutts-smith/most-inner-oriented-artists-share-a-common-characteristic-a-certain/)

[Kenneth Coutts-Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-coutts-smith/)

> [When the symbols are 'public' they usually act in an oblique manner, revealing themselves as archetypal symbols, which though familiar, have their central meanings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-coutts-smith/when-the-symbols-are-public-they-usually-act-in-an-oblique-manner/)

[Kenneth Coutts-Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-coutts-smith/)

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