Rimbaud [famous French poet] has epitomized for me the true function of the artist when he wrote: 'The poet should define the quantity of the unknown which awakes in his time, in the universal soul. He should give more than the formula of his thought, than the annotation of his march toward progress. The enormous becoming the normal, when absorbed by everyone, he would really be a multiplication of progress.'

In: 'My murals for the Newark Airport: an interpretation', Arshile Gorky, 1936