Able Quote by Lauryn Hill

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

— Karen Kain

“Those seeking political and economic change should consider embracing art. Part of our role as citizens is to look more closely at the media…

— Jonathan Taplin

Our job as artists, we believe, is not to make changes in society. We don't have the ability to do that. We reflect life.…

— John Kani

I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people and give…

— Goapele

So-called leaders aren't doing anything, so it's become the job of artists like me. We have to get on the front lines and fight…

— Fantastic Negrito

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

— Ariel Gore

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of…

— Anonymous

“In a fearful, eroding democracy, it remains to be seen whether art continues to be free to act in the public sphere or is…

— Gregory Sholette

As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.

— Robert Genn

We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four…

— Nancy Wilson

We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any…

— Antony Gormley

What keeps an artiste going is the adulation of the masses.

— Bappi Lahiri