Camus

Thanks Debbie for this:

"One of the temptations of the artist is to believe himself solitary,
and in truth he hears this shouted at him with a certain base
delight. But this is not true. He stands in the midst of all, in the
same rank, neither higher nor lower, with all those who are working
and struggling. His very vocation, in the face of oppression, is to
open the prisons and to give voice to the sorrows and joys of all.
This is where art, against its enemies, justifies itself by proving
precisely that it is no one's enemy. By itself art could probably not
produce the renascence which implies justice and liberty. But without
it, that renascence would be without forms and, consequently, would be
nothing. Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies,
society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any
authentic creation is a gift to the future." -- The Myth of Sisyphus