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I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is theyre trying to write about. They have music. – Thom Yorke

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The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future. – Thom Yorke

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Music is more difficult – try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political. – Thom Yorke

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funny
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One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. – Thom Yorke

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I dont listen to what art critics say. I dont know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. – Jean-Michel Basquiat

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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. – John Berger

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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. – Novalis

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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of mens lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. – John Ruskin

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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. – Claude-Adrien Helvétius

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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed. – P. G. Wodehouse

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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity. – Jean Paul Richter

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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. – Albert Camus

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