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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.

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

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

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.

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

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.