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The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined.

— George Saunders

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

— Francis Bacon

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

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

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

— Berthold Auerbach

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

— Sol LeWitt

I think the job of artists is to stir things up.

— Jeremy Irons

Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. From the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the defibrillator that could save our lives, an artist is behind the design.

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

— Saul Steinberg

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

— Steve Lacy

✗Opposing Perspectives

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.

— Shea Hembrey