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It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say.

— Peter Ackroyd

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

— Amiri Baraka

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.

— Jeff Koons

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

— Joe Murray

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

— David Hockney

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

— Henry Rollins

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

— John McGahern

As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.

— Rich Moore

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

— Mos Def

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

— Aldous Huxley

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.

— Tracee Ellis Ross