Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.
All of that art-for-art__-sake stuff is BS,_ she declares. __hat are these people talking about? Are you really telling me that Shakespeare and Aeschylus weren__ writing about kings? All good art is political! There is none that isn__. And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, __e love the status quo._ We__e just dirtied the word __olitics,_ made it sound like it__ unpatriotic or something._ Morrison laughs derisively. __hat all started in the period of state art, when you had the communists and fascists running around doing this poster stuff, and the reaction was __o, no, no; there__ only aesthetics._ My point is that is has to be both: beautiful and political at the same time. I__ not interested in art that is not in the world. And it__ not just the narrative, it__ not just the story; it__ the language and the structure and what__ going on behind it. Anybody can make up a story.
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All of that art-for-art__-sake stuff is BS,_ she declares. __hat are these people talking about? Are you really telling me that Shakespeare and Aeschylus weren__ writing about kings? All good art is political! There is none that isn__. And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, __e love the status quo._ We__e just dirtied the word __olitics,_ made it sound like it__ unpatriotic or something._ Morrison laughs derisively. __hat all started in the period of state art, when you had the communists and fascists running around doing this poster stuff, and the reaction was __o, no, no; there__ only aesthetics._ My point is that is has to be both: beautiful and political at the same time. I__ not interested in art that is not in the world. And it__ not just the narrative, it__ not just the story; it__ the language and the structure and what__ going on behind it. Anybody can make up a story.
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