Art Quote by Leonard Bernstein

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

— Alice Walker

Artists are the seeds, brave enough to live and flower before humanity. Our soil is contemplation, our water, its understanding. Whether my petals be…

— Rasun

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

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it…

— Arthur O'Shaughnessy

“And underneath everything, whatever phase the world has gone into, there must be artists, there must be musicians, there must be writers. They are…

— Jillian Sullivan

It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends…

— Paul Strand

[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and…

— Joseph Conrad

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of…

— Jane Rule

The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.

— Ann Mortifee

“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

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

— Lewis Mumford