...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination. Patti Smith
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The artist is not seeking redemption. The artist is seeking to see what others do not, the projection of his imagination. When an artist creates something, it comes from what he sees in the world and how he would like the world to be. That is because no one person can accurately depict all of humanity.

Art has the ability to show what we cannot see and to create a world that we can only imagine. For example: painters and writers show us war and suffering while poets and musicians create a perfect world that we would love to live in.

Source: Just Kids

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