Quotes About Society

When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works in a way. It's kind of embarrassing.

Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.

That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.

Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?

Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

No arts, no letters - no society.

Blest is that government where no art thrives.

You're only popular with anorexia.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public.

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.