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Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

— Anna Deavere Smith

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Hilary Rosen

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

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

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

— Ciaran Hinds

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

To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.

— Robert Irwin

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

— Andy Warhol

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

— Richard Price

✗Opposing Perspectives

There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.

— Russell Smith

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

— Jackson Pollock