“To create today is to create dangerously… The question, for all those who cannot live without art and what it signifies, is merely to find out how, among the police forces of so many ideologies… the strange liberty of creation is possible.” ~ Albert Camus
In a piece titled "Create Dangerously," Albert Camus explored the artist’s essential responsibility to leap society forward by upsetting the system. He wrote, "Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing." [1]
“If you look very carefully you will see that they are the same people who are quite happy with the situation as it is… What they are saying is don’t upset the system.” ~ Chinua Achebe
“To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” ~ E.E. Cummings
References
- Create Dangerously: Albert Camus on the Artist as a Voice of Resistance and a Liberator of Society, 📝The Marginalian
- The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel