Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.
When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.
One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.