“Since art exists for humanity it is not unreasonable to assume that humanity has some rights in the matter. Who pays the piper calls the tune. An artist cannot be at once a rebel and a comfortable citizen.” ArtMatterArtistHumanityPayRightsCitizensComfortableAssumingTunesRebelUnreasonablePipers Author:Walter J. Phillips
“Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.” ArtistFightingJusticeResponsibilityCitizensStructureOppression Author:Emily Saliers
“Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.” PeopleShouldArtistWalksPoetCitizensBandForgottenRadioWideVarietyDryCleanersWalks Of LifeDry Cleaners Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction, he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions, but also entire world view, he is the inventor of entire forms of like.” MenWorldWayNeedsGivingChildrenPlayCareFormLawArtistViewsSecurityTheoryCitizensScientistFellowsInstitutionsTake CareRationalityFellow ManInventorMamaWorld ViewMethodologyPapa Author:Paul Feyerabend
“The citizen lives in each of us. In the days of Brezhnev, Andropov, Gorbachev and Yeltsin, I was constantly trying to suppress the responsible citizen in me. I told myself that I was, after all, an artist.” TryingArtistCitizensResponsibleGorbachevBrezhnev Author:Vladimir Sorokin
“There are actually two separate issues here. The first is whether (as ancient philosophers and Nietzsche assume) only the privileged elite can live a worthwhile life. The second is whether it's possible to fulfill the roles of both serious artist and upstanding citizen. It seems to me that philosophy can dissect both questions, by delineating clearly the anatomy of the good life and the structural conditions of the roles.” FirstsTwoPhilosophySeemsArtistRolesIssuesConditionsSeriousCitizensAssumingAncientPhilosopherGood LifeWorthwhileElitesPrivilegedAnatomy Author:Philip Kitcher
“I understood my personal responsibility in putting Christ on the cross and the implications of how the Gospel impacts every area of life. It informs my identity as a human, as an artist, and as a citizen of this country.” HumansCountryArtistChristResponsibilityIdentityCitizensUnderstoodAreasCrossesImpactImplicationsPersonal ResponsibilityChrist On The Cross Author:Sho Baraka
“I think our duty as American citizens is to be involved and engaged in anything that affects us. As an artist, I have to use my platform, and as a dad, a brother, and a black man, I have to be as socially woke and present as possible.” ThinkingMenUseArtistBlackBrotherDutyDadCitizensInvolvedEngagedPlatformsAmerican Citizens Author:Chance the Rapper
“The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.” ThinkingStillsUsedArtistSocialCitizensPoliticianTraditionUsed To BeEtcOperaClassical MusicIntercourse Author:Yo-Yo Ma
“The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.” WritingBelieveFactsArtistI BelieveNovelInfluenceCitizensMusicianPaintPainterNovelists Author:Jose Saramago
“An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.” KnowsMayArtistHouseCitizensOrdinaryBurdenOrdinary Citizens Author:Patti Smith
“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.” IfsBelieveArtEndsDreamRealityMotivationalArtistImaginationMusicCreativitySupportSacrificeCitizensAppreciationWorthlessAltarsCrude Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it's true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.” KnowsMatterMomentsHappensArtistNextDarkBearsCitizensWalkingIllusionNo Matter WhatSafetyNobody KnowsWhistlingWalking In The Dark Author:James A. Baldwin