Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen.
When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.
I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Art has to be reflective of our society.
Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.
Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
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