Community Quote by Yoko Ono

I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.

— Albert Brooks

“The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the thing worked…

— Edith Wharton

Our work should be a reflection of society, and if you're not concerned with including all of society, then I don't really know what…

— Sasheer Zamata

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

— John Waters

I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get…

— Joyce Tenneson

I wish I had not believed that my work would speak for itself; the working world requires a bit more than that.

— Ory Okolloh

“Society is what you perceive it to be. It is your reflection. It not only resides in villages. If you think in your mind…

— Shiv Kumar

When you focus on your own work, it all falls in place. People respect you.

— Rajkumar Hirani

My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.

— Andres Serrano

I think, at the end of the day, you should just be judged by your work, not on what effect it might have on…

— Ken Jeong

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

— Mary Ellen Mark