“The purpose of art is to provide what life does not.”
“The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.”
“What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?”
“The function of the artist,' the Navajo answered, 'is to provide what life does not.”
“Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? I believe life imitates art the imitates life.”
“It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli.”