Quotes About Humanity

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.

Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

Selfless giving is the art of living.

I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.

Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans.

Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.

Art is a hot soup in this cold world!

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

We will die, but art will remain.

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.

Art has to address eternal issues.

A billion people died on the news tonight.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.