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Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.

— Al Jourgensen

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✓Similar Perspectives

An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

— Aasif Mandvi

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

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

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 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

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

— Jidenna

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

— Andy Warhol

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

— Claude Monet

✗Opposing Perspectives

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

— Joseph Conrad

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