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Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.

— William Stafford

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

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

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

— Asger Jorn

Just because I'm an artist doesn't mean I should be treated differently.

— Melanie Martinez

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

— Nhat Hanh

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an…

— Eric Fischl

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

— Robert Smithson

So many artists try to be something that they're not.

— Johnny Van Zant

There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about…

— Jenny Diski

One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.

— Charles Atlas