If we make one criterion for defining the artist the impulse to make something new, or to do something in a new way - a kind of divine discontent wit… - Margaret Mead

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If we make one criterion for defining the artist the impulse to make something new, or to do something in a new way - a kind of divine discontent with all that has gone before, however good - then we can find such artists at every level of human culture, even when performing acts of great simplicity.

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About Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (16 December 1901 – 15 November 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

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Alternative Names: Margaret Bateson Margaret Mead Bateson Margaret Fortune Margaret Mead Fortune
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