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.
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James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
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The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible. —Toni Cade Bambara
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“The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.”
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
The artist is distinguished from all other responsible actors in society — the politicians, legislators, educators, and scientists — by the fact that he is his own test tube, his own laboratory, working according to very rigorous rules, however unstated these may be, and cannot allow any consideration to supersede his responsibility to reveal all t
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Art has a social purpose [and] art belongs to the people. It’s not something that is hanging out there that has no connection with the needs of man. And art is unashamedly, unembarrassingly, if there is such a word, social. It is political; it is economic. The total life of man is reflected in his art.