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.
My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book about them. Then, they become so real to me I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.
I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, _x000D_ the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered-_x000D_ as a storyteller. A good storyteller.
If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness.
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