The role of the artist
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The role of the artist
- The function of art is also clear: Artists propose new ways of doing things and perceiving the world, which if successful, become conventional.
from What is Culture? Part Four: Conventions
Andrew McCluskey added
Again - the artists as thought leader
As artists and professionals it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.
from The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- “You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
from Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics by Medium
Keely Adler added