Carey Mulligan Quotes

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

In general I think that in art you only have the responsibility to tell the truth.

Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.

For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

Music is an artform, and I always though art was beyond censorship. I thought this was a common view. Apparently, I was wrong.

I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want to do as artists.

I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.

It's not like I go into the studio and say I'm going to try to make music to prove to somebody that I can make music.

Being an actor/ writer is a responsibility and a burden and a gift. The responsibility to me is that you can't just wait to be cast into something and then you create the role. You almost have a voice inside of you telling you what you might want to play and be able to play. It's hard, but once that thing comes out of the printer and you hold those warm pages to your cheek it's great. It's a huge sense of accomplishment.

I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

I just go in the studio and do what I love to do. People will be people, they'll come and go, they'll like you then not like you, I just try to stay true to myself first and that's what most important because that way when you are successful you can stand up and say look, I did it my way and I did it the way that I wanted to do it.

It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand or three hundred. I am like an artist who paints a picture because he must, otherwise he is unhappy - not unhappy, but he must obey that creative impulse.

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.

There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

The idea that musicians/artists have a responsibility to be community leaders or "role models" is problematic to me because I really believe that some of the most exciting art is not community-minded at least in any obvious or direct way, which is not to say that it is not ethical or consciousness-changing.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.