Art Artist Culture Quotes

#1. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

John F. Kennedy

#2. And in reaching out and doing these new things you get into this strange kind of shape where you are better off than if you were just resting, because you're using things that wouldn't otherwise be mute.

George Hamilton

#3. I believe that it is important for the artist, painter, poet, dancer, etc. to keep in mind that it is the art that drives the art world and not the other way around. Artists and other people of intelligence have the power to bring deeper content to our culture.

Thornton Willis

#4. We need to insist on making culture out of our desire: making paintings, novels, plays and films potent and seductive and authentic enough to undermine and overwhelm the Iron Maiden.

Naomi Wolf

#5. Art is what we do and culture is what they do to us.

Carl Andre

#6. A good artist makes imaginations real!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.

Frank Gehry

#8. Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music, performance art and visual art that continues to push the envelope, inspire and empower.

Ryan Kavanaugh

#9. [Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

Joan Of Arc

#10. Tears are words the heart can't express

Gerard Way

#11. The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality.

Piet Mondrian

#12. As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

Jennifer Stone

#13. I have always felt the word 'advertising' is either a diminutive or derogatory term that kind of goes with stuff people don't like, and I always felt frustrated because I felt like I was a communication artist or a media artist. The best advertising is one of the art forms of our culture.

Lee Clow

#14. For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family.

Ben Bernanke

#15. Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

Carl Andre

#16. For me, looking at small images somehow recreates the experience of looking through a viewfinder ... At this size they're edible. You don't just scan them. You take them in all at once.

Judy Fiskin

#17. Everything brought forward in favor of Socialism during the last hundred years, in thousands of writings and speeches, all the blood which has been spilt by the supporters of Socialism, cannot make socialism workable.

Ludwig Von Mises

#18. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.

Joseph Campbell

#19. Somewhere along the way in your life, the world and its people will have a problem with you. That's their problem. Not yours.

Lil' Wayne

#20. There is a silence that comes to a house when no one can sleep. I guess it's the price of love; I know it's not cheap.

U2

#21. If the artist reflects only his own culture, then his works will die with that culture. But if his works reflect the eternal and universal, they will revive.

Madeleine L'Engle