We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.
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I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects the role of an artist or creator in influencing and manipulating their audience's perceptions and emotions.
Grant Morrison's quote portrays the idea of an artist as a conductor of emotions and experiences, akin to a puppeteer controlling the movements of a puppet. It emphasizes the power of the creator in shaping narratives and directing the audience's reactions, blurring the lines between creator and audience, and showcasing the inherent influence artists hold over those who engage with their work.
Themes
ArtistCreationInfluenceNarrativePerception
In practice
Example use cases
This quote would be perfect for an art exhibition opening to encapsulate the artist's creative control.
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American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But Superman is a metaphor. For me, Superman has the same problems we do, but on a Paul Bunyan scale. If Superman walks the dog, he walks it around the asteroid belt because it can fly in space. When Superman's relatives visit, they come from the 31st century and bring some hellish monster conqueror from the future. But it's still a story about your relatives visiting.
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Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.
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A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries
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