Act Quote by Mario Testino

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can…

— Al Jourgensen

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

— Ben Elton

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

— Tom Hiddleston

Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to…

— Merrill Brockway

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'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

When I was in '97, I didn't know I was in a very major moment. But with the privilege of reflection, I do. And…

— Mara Brock Akil

And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell…

— John Lennon

Photographers are always voyeuristic, and they do sort of live vicariously. I think every artist does.

— Patricia Bosworth

Artists also have the responsibility of reflecting the truth.

— Zoe Kravitz

Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job.

— Doug Stanhope

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

— Diana Vreeland