Activity Quote by Olafur Eliasson

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

The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured, and highly…

— Ben Shahn

I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the…

— Jack Shadbolt

It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.

— Eric Maisel

I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people and give…

— Goapele

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

— Henry Moore

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live…

— George Saunders

“We think that all artists create their art for essentially the same reason—they have a view of the world that they want to share…

— Ken Hicks

Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.

— Olafur Eliasson

It's the role of the artist to pursue content

— Anish Kapoor

I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible…

— Keith Haring

No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human…

— Rudolf Arnheim