Action Quote by Ian Anderson

I think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist.

— Jonny Lang

I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let people know…

— Ai Weiwei

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

I'm glad to say I'm experiencing more of a conversation in my artistic workforce world than I ever have before. But it's a job,…

— Jessie Mueller

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns…

— Wayne Dyer

In a sense, I feel like the job of the artist at all times is essentially the same, which is simply to tell the…

— Tony Kushner

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have…

— Patti Smith

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

— Arthur Miller

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about…

— Viggo Mortensen

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn…

— B.o.B

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

— Vincent Van Gogh