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. —Toni Cade Bambara
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
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.
James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
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
for art to serve social imagination, it has to be organised in ways that allow time for it to be absorbed and adapted, so that it becomes an act of co-creation rather than just an act of consumption or an enjoyable way to pass the evening.15 If it is only an object for the passing gaze, then it is, perhaps, bound to fail. Experiences that are share
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