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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

— Ernst Fischer

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

— Henry Miller

Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

— JR

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

— Michel Foucault

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

— JR

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

— Rockwell Kent

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.

— Antony Gormley

Art has to be reflective of our society.

— David Zayas

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

— Wadada Leo Smith