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Mr President, what is an artist? What is his place? Marginal or central? Well-known or unknown artist? Always misunderstood, damned and poor or famous and rich? Darling of the elite or pariah of the consumer society? Scrounger at rich men’s tables or on the revolutionary barricades? Picture of despair or image of happiness?
What is an artist? A person who has a taste for the arts, a love of what is beautiful? If that is how it is, what is the artist to do in a society that produces ugly things? Hide away in his ivory tower or go down into the street among the angry crowds? If the artist has a status, is he going to resolve his dilemma or plunge it still further into confusion? While we examine the artistic creator from every angle, the other one, the supreme Creator, protects him, saves him and inspires him.
We have spoken about the artist as citizen: that is just propaganda! We have spoken about the artist as witness of his age: that is a definition of an art critic. For my part, I think he is the seismograph of this society. We can help him by making laws for him, but we shall be plunging him into artistic bureaucracy. This is because things that are new for us now, for the artist, have already been experienced, assimilated and consumed."@en1
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