Art Quote by Anne Roiphe

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls…

— Thom Yorke

I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot of bad…

— Billy Porter

People should stop thinking that an artist that controls what he does is a bad thing. A lot of artists today are just victims,…

— Daft Punk

There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists…

— Athol Fugard

Artists often have mental health issues. And their lifestyles are unstable because of all the travelling and the media commentary on their lives.

— Kate Nash

People expect artists to be too normal, I think. I've been around enough of them now to see that they're very extraordinary human beings…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Artists, in theory, should not be limited to their personal experience, culture, identity, and worldview. But they must also accept that the degree of…

— Sarah Weinman

That's what everyone should do with their lives: stand up for what they believe in or try to do some good in the world.…

— Tracy Chapman

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

— Nhat Hanh

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

— Maynard James Keenan

Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have…

— Michael Franti