When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
Interpretation
Youth provides the freedom to take risks and challenge norms.
Garry Trudeau reflects on how being young allows one to boldly experiment with ideas and themes that resonate with contemporary societal issues. His audacity in introducing subjects like politics and sexuality into comics highlights the tension between creative expression and traditional boundaries, showcasing how art can provoke important conversations.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech about how young artists can influence culture.
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from oneβs tears.
There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element and to such an extent that it even brings out the bad qualities, as for instance, ruthless, naive egoism (so-called "auto-eroticism"), vanity, all kinds of vices-and all this in order to bring to the human I at least some life-strength, since otherwise it would perish of sheer inanition.
Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.
I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.
Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.
When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I go to great pains to mask the agony. But the struggle is there. It's the invisible enemy.
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