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The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art _ enriched, ennobled, encouraged _ they then act in a way that may affect the course of events... by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think.
Leonard Bernstein
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The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art _ enriched, ennobled, encouraged _ they then act in a way that may affect the course of events... by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think.

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