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 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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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
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.
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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The goal of art isn’t to attain perfection. The goal is to share who we are. And how we see the world. Artists allow us to see what we are unable to see, but somehow already know. It may be a view of the world singularly different from our own. Or one so close, it seems miraculous, as if the artist is looking through our own eyes. In either case, t
... See moreRick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
that “a work of art is something new in the world that changes the world to allow itself to exist.”