“The questioning of art by the artist has many reasons, and only the loftiest need be considered. Amongst the best explanations is the feeling the contemporary artist has of lying or of indulging in useless words if he pays no attention to history’s woes. What characterizes our time, indeed, is the way masses and their wretched condition have burst upon contemporary sensibilities. We know now they exist, whereas we once had a tendency to forget them. And if we are more aware, it is not because our aristocracy, artistic or otherwise, has become better-no, have no fear-it is because the masses have become stronger and keep people forgetting them.”
Albert Camus, “Create Dangerously”, 1957.
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