Art Quote by Walter J. Phillips

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

— Ai Weiwei

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things…

— Robert Rauschenberg

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

— Marina Abramovic

There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human…

— Adrienne Rich

Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have…

— Michael Franti

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

As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just…

— Leon Krier

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

I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

— Ai Weiwei

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

— Patti Smith

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

— Uta Hagen