"what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system."

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Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1974). “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening”, New York : Morrow, 1974, 1975 printing.

Elizabeth Janeway

#Art Quotes #Warning Quotes #Function Quotes

“Humanity is the sin of God”
“I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.”
“If you eat dead food, you are going to feel dead. If you eat live food, you are going to feel alive.”
“I'm not honest, but you're interesting!”
“[Stephanie] 'You see, Mrs. Mayer was going on about George's lodge, and how he wanted to be buried with his ring, and so Grandma had to check the ring out, and in the process broke off one of George's fingers. Turns out the finger was wax. Somehow Kenny got into the mortuary this morning, left Spiro a note, and chopped off George's finger. And then while I was at the mall tonight with Mary Lou, Kenny threatened me in the shoe department. That must have been when he put the finger in my pocket.' [Morelli] 'Have you been drinking?”
“A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.”
“An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time.”
“My brother and I are best friends.”

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