“There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists.” PeopleFeelsHelpingHandsArtistGivenDutyHelping Hand Author:Hugo Pratt
“I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.” KnowsWorldProblemArtistAsksKnow HowDutyPoliticianSolve Author:Marjane Satrapi
“It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.” WorldDesireArtistResponsibilityDutyDisciplineGoodnessWork OutGood WorkAestheticsSingularityCandorMusterUniversalityRadicalism Book:Epicurean Simplicity Source: Epicurean Simplicity
“The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.” ThinkingTwoArtistResponsibilityDutyCombinationImmenseIrresponsibility Author:David Cronenberg
“It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.” EndsArtistSawsDuty Author:Billy Childish
“If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.” IfsFirstsArtistSawsDutyFunctionCritics Author:J. E. H. MacDonald
“To be born with a unique instinct, will demand 'unique duties'. If you didn't think about being an artist before 7 years of age you probably don't have it and you will be able to paint what you want to paint.” IfsThinkingWantYearsAgeAbleArtistBornDutyDemandUniqueInstinctPaintWhat You WantBeing An Artist Author:David Luiz
“The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.” WayShowsFormArtistEmotionAudienceSubjectsDutyCalmExcitementInvolvementPouringOlympian Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.” IfsI CanWholeArtistGrowingDutyFailure Author:May Sarton
“There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.” MenWorldHumansChildrenPurposeArtistLosesCitiesRolesDarknessForeverMinesDutySightForestsConquerWildernessFedsPreciseConquestDwellingSwampsDrainedDwelling Place Author:James A. Baldwin