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Artist Quotes by Ai Weiwei
- We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to…
- I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
- Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
- It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude…
- I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
- For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up.…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu