James Baldwin Quote

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.


Collected Essays (ed. 1998)


The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.