Art Quote by Bez

I'm an artist, and an artist doesn't worry about being politically correct when I write.

— James L. Dolan

As many have said before me, artists are creative people who can't be dragged into the politics of nations. I have always made a…

— Mahira Khan

I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.

— Jared Leto

I feel it's my social responsibility to shine a light on areas that don't get seen. My personal feeling is that it's an artist's…

— Lynn Nottage

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

It's quite scary when academics start dictating to artists that they should be politically correct or follow certain rules of behavior - which means…

— Pieter Hugo

I think artists throughout the history of time have always been controversial and have been a voice to speak to public culture in a…

— Mark Foster

There's just so, so many overlooked R&B artists and I think it's really about, again, being sensitive to whatever you're addressing culturally. I just…

— Solange Knowles

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

I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but…

— Toni Morrison

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

Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in…

— Camille Paglia