The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.
The role of the artist
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The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.
The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.
The role of the artist
The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible. —Toni Cade Bambara
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible. —Toni Cade Bambara
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
The function of art is also clear: Artists propose new ways of doing things and perceiving the world, which if successful, become conventional.
What is Culture? Part Four: Conventions
Art is confrontation. It widens the audience’s reality, allowing them to glimpse life through a different window. One with the potential for a glorious new view.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The ideal of political change through imaginative transformation—the vision of the artist as an agent of social change—must be joined to a culture of collective dialogue to forge effective political transformation.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
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.
It is possible that art is nearer to the heart of creation than philosophy. It is therefore capable of letting something entirely new begin. The revolution can begin with as little as an unheard-of color, an unheard-of sound.