Quotes About Society

Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and "art" itself has become satire.

Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.

The human being now simply can't close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one's fellows perhaps prevent full buttoning by artists.

there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust

Lee explained to her that art for art's sake is an upper-class aesthetic. To create art divorced from any purpose, you can't be living a life driven by need and desire.

Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.

Greed is the performance art of the 21st Century.

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

He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves.

Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian

We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.

An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.

Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.

What's an artist but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?

Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.

Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away.

I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.

How do popular attitudes get formed? Do the movies just reflect it or inform it? Where does this particular idea come from? I don't know if I can say anything too illuminating.

The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.

The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes