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title: "14 Artist Duty Quotes by 13 authors"
description: "Browse 14 Artist Duty quotes by 13 authors. Discover the best Artist Duty sayings and thoughts."
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> [You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-simone/you-can-t-help-it-an-artist-s-duty-as-far-as-i-m-concerned-is-to/)

[Nina Simone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-simone/)

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> [It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-childish/it-is-an-artist-s-duty-to-be-on-the-wrong-end-of-the-see-saw/)

[Billy Childish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-childish/)

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> [“It is an artist's duty to reflect the times.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-simone/it-is-an-artist-s-duty-to-reflect-the-times/)

[Nina Simone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-simone/)

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> [It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/it-s-an-artist-s-duty-to-reflect-the-times-in-which-we-live/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“It was the artist’s duty to find the appropriate objects, and the audience’s job to decipher meaning. If the piece failed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-sedaris/it-was-the-artist-s-duty-to-find-the-appropriate-objects-and-the/)

[David Sedaris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-sedaris/)

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> [The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cronenberg/the-artist-s-duty-to-himself-is-a-combination-of-immense/)

[David Cronenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cronenberg/)

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> [I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marjane-satrapi/i-m-not-a-politician-i-don-t-know-how-to-solve-the-problems-of-the/)

[Marjane Satrapi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marjane-satrapi/)

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> [I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bono/i-think-carrying-moral-baggage-is-very-dangerous-for-an-artist-if-you/)

[Bono](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bono/)

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> [“A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist's duty?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/a-writer-is-lost-when-he-grows-interested-in-such-questions-as-what/)

[Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-nabokov/)

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> [If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-e-h-macdonald/if-the-function-of-the-artist-is-to-see-the-first-duty-of-the-critic/)

[J. E. H. MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-e-h-macdonald/)

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> [An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/an-artist-s-duty-is-rather-to-stay-open-minded-and-in-a-state-where/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrei-tarkovsky/the-artist-has-a-duty-to-be-calm-he-has-no-right-to-show-his-emotion/)

[Andrei Tarkovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrei-tarkovsky/)

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> [There is a Nina Simone quote, 'It is an artist's duty to reflect the times.' This quote is everything to me and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raye/there-is-a-nina-simone-quote-it-is-an-artist-s-duty-to-reflect-the/)

[Raye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raye/)

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> [It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephanie-mills/it-s-the-artist-s-duty-to-have-an-artist-s-life-somehow-to-obtain/)

[Stephanie Mills](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephanie-mills/)

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