Quotes About Art

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.

Music is always a commentary on society.

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

Literature is the expression of society.

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .