Joseph Campbell on the Role of the Artist
Posted in Art Quotes on Jul 21st, 2008
(Painting by Gabrielle Marlow)
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life.
Myths are the world’s dreams. They are [...]
