An artist, if he’s unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens his mouth, an artist is engaged, because opening his mouth is always scandalous.
“The best response to the corporate present is not to overthrow it, not to resist it at all, but simply to walk away from it and create what would in essence be a kind of counter culture. I’m assuming it would be very different from the old one for no other reason than that we already tried that once and it didn’t work.”
Curtis White