This is precisely the time
when artists go to work.
There is no time for
despair, no place for self-pity,
no need for silence, no
room for fear. We speak,
we write, we do
language. That is how
civilizations heal.
~ Toni Morrison
Art has always been the raft
onto which we climb to save our
sanity. I don’t see a different
purpose for it now.
~ Dorothea Tanning
IF YOUR HEART IS
BROKEN, MAKE ART
WITH THE PIECES.
~ Shane Koyczan
THE PURPOSE OF
ART IS THE FIGHT
FOR FREEDOM
~ Ai Weiwei
Art is to console those who are broken by life.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.
~ James Baldwin
They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I.
The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything you can save is worth saving. You may need to grieve or scream or take time off, but you have a role no matter what, and right now good friends and good principles are worth gathering in.
Remember what you love. Remember what loves you. Remember in this tide of hate what love is. The pain you feel is because of what you love. The Wobblies used to say don’t mourn, organize, but you can do both at once and you don’t have to organize right away in this moment of furious mourning.
~ Rebecca Solnit
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