‘Artists,’ he said, ‘are people who say “I can’t fix my country or my state or my city, or even my marriage. But by golly, I can make this square of canvas, or this eight-and-a-half-by-eleven piece of paper, or this lump of clay, or these twelve bars of music, exactly what they ought to be!’
— Kurt Vonnegut, quoting his thesis advisor in Timequake (via plainoljane)
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