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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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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. – Max Eastman

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Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. – Max Eastman

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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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In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in his work a propagandist for good roads, shorter hours, and a low tariff. All these are excellent things, but they need not be the concern of the artist. – Heywood Broun

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For the serious artist does not satisfy needs – Anthony Burgess

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In the artists recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world. – John W. Gardner

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