One writes out of one thing only — one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "One writes out of one thing only — one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art." in the context of "James Baldwin "Autobiographical Notes" (1952); republished in Notes of a Native Son (1955)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.