Art Quote by Emily Saliers

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 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

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

— Ai Weiwei

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

I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

— Ai Weiwei

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

— Ezra Furman

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

If you truly believe that artists have a responsibility to uphold their liberal virtues by using their massive platforms, then those artists should be…

— Matty Healy

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

— Cornelia Parker

At some point as an artist you have to take responsibility for everything you say.

— Naughty Boy

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we…

— Alice Walker

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