The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arousethesleeper, toshakethe complacent pillars ofthe world.He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present, and points the way to its new birth.He isat oncetheproduct and thepreceptorof his time.

-Bethune, Norman
  Letter from Madrid, 5 May. Quoted in Ted  Allen and Sydney Gordon The Scalpel, The Sword (1952).

A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

-Capp, Al originally Alfred Gerald Caplin
  Of abstract art. In the National Observer,1  Jul.

   Be no longer a chaos, but a world, or even worldkin. Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name!'Tistheutmostthou hast inthee: out with it, then.

-Carlyle,Thomas
^4  Sartor Resartus, bk.2, ch.9.

The product of mental labouröscienceöalways stands far below its value, because the labour-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labour-time required for its original production.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  Theory of Surplus Value.

This dull product of a scoffer's pen.

-Wordsworth,William
  OfVoltaire's novel Candide.'The Excursion', bk.2, l.484.