“The creative artist has an essential role in modern society. By expressing his individual ideas and emotions he adds to the sum of human awareness.”
'The Artist in American Society' - Colorado Magazine Vol. 15 No 2 Autumn 1966
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Source: MEW Vol. 42, p. 176.
Source: Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy

The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)

Yves Klein, catalogue of exhibition in the Jewish Museum, New York 1967, p. 18
from posthumous publications

The Mike Wallace Interview (1958)
Context: Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society. Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake of science, for the sake of religion, for the sake of the conscience of the individual — this freedom is necessary for the individual.

“He has the strangest expression on his face—the emotive equivalent of 404”
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Source: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012), Chapter 12 “The Founder’s Puzzle” (p. 96)

Quote from The Writings of Marcel Duchamp (Marchand du Sel) e.d. Michel Sanouille and Elmer Peterson, New York 1973, pp. 139-140
posthumous
Context: The spectator experiences the phenomenon of transmutation; through the change from inert matter into a work of art, an actual transubstantiation has taken place... All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work into contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.