Art Quote by Bono

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

I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

— Mary Gordon

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

— Keith Jarrett

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be…

— Nick Cave

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

— Oscar Wilde

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

— JR

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Talib Kweli

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

— Denis Diderot

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 think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really important.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a…

— Jasper Johns