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If my art has any meaning, it is as a tool for freedom.
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The speaker presents art as valuable when it helps create freedom. “A tool” suggests that art is not only something to look at; it can help people think, express themselves, or resist limits. The wording is modest—“if” and “any meaning”—but it clearly connects art with the possibility of living or acting more freely.
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