Art Quote by Michael Franti

That's what everyone should do with their lives: stand up for what they believe in or try to do some good in the world.…

— Tracy Chapman

I feel it's my social responsibility to shine a light on areas that don't get seen. My personal feeling is that it's an artist's…

— Lynn Nottage

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

— Ezra Furman

I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want to do…

— Ezra Furman

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

— Talib Kweli

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some…

— Anne Roiphe

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

— Ai Weiwei

There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists…

— Athol Fugard

At some point as an artist you have to take responsibility for everything you say.

— Naughty Boy

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he…

— Georg Baselitz

If you truly believe that artists have a responsibility to uphold their liberal virtues by using their massive platforms, then those artists should be…

— Matty Healy

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls…

— Thom Yorke