Top 22 Quotes About Art And Social Change
#2. Nobody's death is impending."
... "Well technically everyone's death is impending.
Eoin Colfer
#3. In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Ernst Fischer
#4. I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.
Ranulph Fiennes
#5. As a seven-year-old, I remember when Etan Patz disappeared and was immortalized as the first missing-child face on a milk carton.
Chelsea Cain
#6. You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it's vital that a change happens now.
Mos Def
#7. I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
Gary Sheffield
#8. Do you want to know what scares the Washington cartel? Actually, not remotely. I don't scare them in the tiniest bit. What scares them is you. What scares them is that old Reagan coalition is coming back together, of conservatives.
Ted Cruz
#9. The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.
John Hanning Speke
#10. What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
Robert Hughes
#11. Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
Quentin Crisp
#12. This document and scores similar to it were at the foundation of cultural, political and social change throughout the ages. Secret brotherhoods with one credo: to know, to dare, to be silent.
Art Johnson
#13. Mr. Persichetti was a night nurse at the state hospital, inspired
Alice McDermott
#14. Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.
Alexander Whyte
#15. The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
Billy Sunday
#16. I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
Abel Ferrara
#17. Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth.
Thomas Hirschhorn
#18. I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.
Pedro Reyes
#19. All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.
Camille Paglia
#20. I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.
Carol Ann Duffy
#21. If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
Salman Rushdie
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