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“We are fighting not just against our contemporaries for recognition, but against centuries of great art for an audience. Each new work competes for customers with everything that came before it and everything that will come after.” quote by Ryan Holiday — Download Open image

““We are fighting not just against our contemporaries for recognition, but against centuries of great art for an audience. Each new work competes for customers with everything that came before it and everything that will come after.””

Ryan Holiday

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“Where little danger is apprehended, the more the enemy will be unprepared and consequently there is the fairest prospect of success.”

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