Quotes About Society

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

art is the pulse of a nation.

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.

The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

What is art? Prostitution.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

Lookin at herself, but wishing she was someone else because the body of the doll that don't look like hers at all. So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws it up and gives a grin.

The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh."

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.