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The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

— Arthur Erickson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

— Jodie Foster

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

— Talib Kweli

Sometimes I think it's the responsibility of the artist to reveal a little more of themselves.

— Mickalene Thomas

The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.

— Louis Leakey

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

— David Hockney

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

— Fernando Botero

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.

— Alma Gluck

It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.

— Dan Colen

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

— James Taylor

✗Opposing Perspectives

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

— Georg Baselitz