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To save people means to save art itself. The activity of an artist means the active denial of death.
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The quote links protecting human life with protecting art, treating art as something that belongs to humanity and should not be lost. It also describes making art as an active denial of death: creative work pushes back against disappearance by preserving ideas, feelings, or human experience in a lasting form.
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