Quotation by H.L. Mencken

It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.
H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (1880–1956), U.S. journalist, critic. From the Baltimore Evening Sun, April 7, 1924. "The Artist," repr. In The Vintage Mencken, p. 146, Vintage (1956).
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