The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imag…

Bell Hooks
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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible. ✨ bell hooks (2012). Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations, p.281, Routledge
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