"...To be a good artist you have to be absolutely lucid at every moment of the creative process, and in good health. I’m very much against the romantic concept of art which maintains that the act of artistic creation is a sacrifice, and that the worse the economic conditions or the emotional state, the better the creative process. I think you have to be in a very good emotional and physical state. Artistic creation for me requires good health, and the Lost Generation understood this. They were people who loved life." [García Márquez, G. Personal interview. Stone, P. (1981, winter) Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69, The Paris Review (82)]
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*The original words of this text: writer, writing, literary, were respectively replaced with: artist, art, artistic creation, creative process, artistic