Art Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates calls the artist a natural revolutionary, insisting that art should provoke, disturb, and expand emotions. She argues that tragedy is the highest form of art and that creators must be transparent witnesses to the world, letting others speak and travel through their work.
![“We come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form - yet the art-work is elaborately artificial, the very genre of tragedy in poetry an anti-naturalist perspective.” quote by Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/604/joyce-carol-oates-344_art_we-come-away-from-the-tragedies-of-willi_1717511.png)
