Artist Tool

Famous quotes containing the words artist and/or tool:

“I remember
a dream two nights ago: the voice,
‘the artist must
create himself or be born again.’”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are not good? Is there any necessity for a man’s being a tool to perform a deed of which his better nature disapproves?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)