Art Quote by Gil Scott-Heron

I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.

— Janina Gavankar

The idea that musicians/artists have a responsibility to be community leaders or "role models" is problematic to me because I really believe that some…

— Kathleen Hanna

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

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

We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.

— David Bayles

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

— Paul Auster

Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.

— Louise Bourgeois

We have to show support for artists who are trying to own things for themselves.

— Prince

Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison…

— Kurt Vonnegut

We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

— Al Jourgensen

I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while…

— Lauryn Hill

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