Art Quote by Marina Abramovic

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

The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.In a…

— Norman Bethune

The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He…

— Norman Bethune

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

— Kurt Vonnegut

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings…

— Mos Def

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

— Ezra Pound

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his…

— Marshall McLuhan

Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

— Tom Robbins

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 fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

— Herbert Read

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

— Max Eastman