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Quotes About Responsibility

The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.
~ Unknown
We rappers are role models.
~ Kanye West
Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.
~ Mandy Patinkin
I look for what needs to be done
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
All I owe the world is my art.
~ Sherman Alexie
As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.
~ Frances Stark
I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way.
~ Robert Hass
Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.
~ T Bone Burnett
I think the challenges that come with the responsibility of art directing something is something that appeals to me.
~ Alexa Chung
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.
~ Bob Dylan
There is no gap between art and politics.
~ Bruce Cockburn
Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity.
~ Christophe Lemaire
What-e're thou art, Act well thy part.
~ David O. McKay
Whether or not anyone could have done it is not what's important. What is important is whether or not anyone would have done it.
~ Derek R. Audette
When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.
~ Diane Paulus
People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.
~ Efraim Zuroff
Making reality real is art's responsibility.
~ Eudora Welty
There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
~ George Oppen
Sure, the killer was my son, but I didn't teach him to pull the trigger of the gun. It's the killer on this TV screen, you can't blame me, it's the images he sees.
~ Jack Johnson
Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.
~ Julia Cameron
Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
She'd like to model or maybe act or star in a magazine. Before she signs any big contracts, she better learn how to read.
~ Thomas Dolby
"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.
~ Tom Stoppard
As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.
~ Vivek Shraya