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The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

— Amiri Baraka

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✓Similar Perspectives

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

— Mos Def

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.

— Tracee Ellis Ross

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

— Marina Abramovic

I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.

— Jidenna

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

— Max Eastman

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

— David Hockney

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

— Wayne Dyer

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.

— William Morris Hunt

As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.

— Rich Moore

✗Opposing Perspectives

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

— James Taylor