Best duty & artist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

People Feels Helping Hands Artist Given Duty Helping 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.”

Knows World Problem Artist Asks Know How Duty Politician Solve

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.”

Artist Duty

Author:John Legend

“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.”

World Desire Artist Responsibility Duty Discipline Goodness Work Out Good Work Aesthetics Singularity Candor Muster Universality Radicalism

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.”

Thinking Two Artist Responsibility Duty Combination Immense Irresponsibility

Author:David Cronenberg

“It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.”

Ends Artist Saws Duty

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.”

Ifs Firsts Artist Saws Duty Function Critics

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.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Age Able Artist Born Duty Demand Unique Instinct Paint What You Want Being 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.”

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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.”

Ifs I Can Whole Artist Growing Duty Failure

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.”

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Author:James A. Baldwin

“The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and preceptor of his times.”

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Author:Norman Bethune

“Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.”

Men Heart Light Artist Dark Duty

Author:Robert Schumann

“My life as a painter influences my teaching and my duties as president of CCA - and I hope some of the experience of working at an exciting art school also spills over into my studio work. I believe most artists are adept at juggling multiple responsibilities - whether it's work, teaching, caring for family members or attending to relationships - with their studio commitment.”

“I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.”

Knows Done Artist Memories Careers Duty

Author:Francoise Gilot

“Obviously, the duty of artists is there, but it's more an indictment of the political system that someone like Zinn views artists as the seers, idealizing them as the people responsible for inspiring change.”

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Author:Thom Yorke

“Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing to go above and beyond any and all calls of duty yourself.”

People Ifs Artist Willing Duty Call Of Duty Above And Beyond

Author:Tori Amos

“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.”

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Author:Chance the Rapper

“An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.”

May Reality Artist Duty Productions Exhibits

Author:Jacques Barzun

“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”

“I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.”

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Author:Bono

“Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.”

World Lying Artist Wonder Duty Dignity Awake Vary Stimulation Sense Of Wonder

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good.”

“You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.”

Helping Artist Duty Concerned

Author:Nina Simone

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