"The role of the artist is exactly the……" — James A. Baldwin

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• Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
• I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
• Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
• Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
• I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
• The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
• I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
• I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
• Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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