Art Quote by Gil Scott-Heron

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

— Marina Abramovic

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

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

— Naughty Boy

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how…

— Amiri Baraka

It's a big responsibility to help someone express themselves as an artist.

— Christina Aguilera

The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.

— David Cronenberg

At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for whatever it…

— Tyga

I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by.

— Russell Simmons

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things…

— Robert Rauschenberg

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he…

— Georg Baselitz

It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to…

— Stephanie Mills

“The individual artist is a medium for making representational and deeply meaningful symbols of the community’s collective consciousness, whether they are symbols of the…

— Inga Muscio