"If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness."
— John Lennon

January 1, 1970

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Quoted as a 1968 statement of Lennon's in Sunday Tasmanian (29 September 1996), and in The Rough Guide to the Beatles (2003) by Chris Ingham, p. 271, this actually derives from a statement which Lennon perhaps had been quoting: