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I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

We don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be.

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.

Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.

Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.

There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.

I've always believed that the artiste is the one who has his pulse on the society and who, in many ways, represents the conscience of society in terms of engaging standards that we need to live by.