Art Quote by Athol Fugard

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up…

— Bono

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some…

— Anne Roiphe

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

“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.”

— Oscar Wilde

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

— Ai Weiwei

There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about…

— Jenny Diski

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

— Talib Kweli

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and…

— Marvin Gaye

I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want to do…

— Ezra Furman

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

“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or herself an…

— Lena Andersson

When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you... and they can't! Individuality and uniqueness…

— Laurence Gartel