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As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

— Patti Smith

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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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

If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.

— Billy Collins

There's not really too many artists that young girls and young people can look up to and be inspired by. So I take it as my responsibility, sometimes, to be the person who has the voice to give people some truth about what we're doing.

— Tink

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.

— Robert Rauschenberg

The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.

— Keith Haring

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

— Anselm Kiefer

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

— Anthony Fauci

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

✗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