Art Quote by Gil Scott-Heron

That's important for artists to remember: some people would like to be spokespeople, but others would like their art to speak.

— Jamila Woods

Most artists I know have gone through some period that forces them to get to the very core of who they are.

— Melody Gardot

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

As an artist you very much want to have control over your dialogue and your image and when you become exposed in a way…

— Halsey

I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better…

— Gil Scott-Heron

Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.

— Wes Nisker

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

— Junot Diaz

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

— Donald Woods Winnicott

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

— Maya Lin

It's always an interesting thing that happens between an artist and their work. People collapse the two, and for any artist, there will be…

— Sarah Morris

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

— David Bayles