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

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

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.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

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.

Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.