Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.
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