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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. -

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. – Max Eastman

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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. – Max Eastman

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The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. – Max Eastman

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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. – Max Eastman

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Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth – Paul Gauguin

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. – Marc Chagall

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I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and Id bet I wouldnt lose 10 % of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. – Berke Breathed

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The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth. – Joseph Campbell

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