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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.
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.
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.
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.
We don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be.
An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.
Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.
Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!
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.
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