“In this situation the artist has a special task and duty: the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.”

—  Lewis Mumford

In the Name of Sanity (1954)
Context: Today, all the normal mischances of living have been multiplied, a million-fold, by the potentialities for destruction, for an unthinking act of collective suicide, which man's very triumphs in science and invention have brought about. In this situation the artist has a special task and duty: the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

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