Quotes About Art

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

Poets sing our human music for us.

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.

We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.

I often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way of giving back to society.

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.

Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think its foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.

Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question.

People don't understand that my films is not about being scandalous - it's about being critical of our own society.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.