Quote by Joseph Campbell
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing throu

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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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. – Joseph Campbell

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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. Its as simple as that. – Joseph Campbell

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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. – Joseph Campbell

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

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The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting. – Paul Gauguin

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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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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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