Quotes About Humanity

I'm more concerned about helping humanity through my art

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

No arts, no letters - no society.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.

more to be a human being with

It is not about the glory of the human form more about being human.

...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".

Art is the product of an imperfect world. In a perfect world, art would not exist.

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication.

Mankind will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry, or money.

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.

Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.

Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art

Artist is not human, but humanity.

For me, art that's alive and urgent is about what it is to be a human being.

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.

Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.

The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism. This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for [human] use.

A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.