Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.
To be an artist, one must. . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life
All art is propaganda. . . . The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters. . . . Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. . . . Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. . . . I want to use my art as a weapon.
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.
The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.
An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn't capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won't put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn't a great artist.
I feel like I am beginning to be a part of a musical community, but I wouldn't say I'm a country artist because I wouldn't want to invalidate anybody else or to even begin to be so preposterous as to think I can just skate into town and get some fans.
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all.
You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right.