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Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them.

I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.

I think the job of artists is to stir things up.

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.