The role of the artist is to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.
The same things do not produce the same effects, though conjoined with the same subjects.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
真相并不总是美丽的,但对真相的追求是。