Quotes About Importance

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

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

People in misery is what most important in art.

The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.

... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is a terrific book of instruction about writing.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.

Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.

Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.