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The role of art in society differs for every artist. -- Maya Lin
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. -- Nicolas Chamfort
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. -- Thom Mayne
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. -- Victor Hugo
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society. -- Edward Bond
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere. -- Huston Smith
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art. -- Julian Barnes
By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell. -- Robert Wilson
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. -- Michel Foucault
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. -- Brad Holland
If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money. -- Robert Crumb
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
Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations. -- Aman Mojadidi
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. -- Salvador Dali
Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existing one cannot be bridged. -- Ivan Krastev
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination. -- Ai Weiwei
I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way. -- Roy Lichtenstein
There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought. -- Al Jourgensen
Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them? -- Devdutt Pattanaik
Art starts alone - and convinces society later. -- Douglas Davis
Art has to be reflective of our society. -- David Zayas
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society. -- Victor Pinchuk
Art is a tool by which society extends its perception. -- Arne Glimcher
What a society deems important is enshrined in its art -- Harry S. Broudy
Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art. -- Stuart Pearson Wright
A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul. -- Camille Paglia
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. -- Victor Pinchuk
The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society. -- Robert J. Havighurst
Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it. -- Theodor Adorno
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself. -- Margaret Atwood
If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society, -- Ai Weiwei
Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands. -- Sonam Kapoor
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society. -- E. L. Doctorow
what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system. -- Elizabeth Janeway
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development. -- Harry Belafonte
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society -- Nicolas Chamfort
If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen. -- Marina Abramovic
In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul. -- John F. Kennedy
Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society. -- Richard Hamming
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished. -- Robert Adams
One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art. -- Herbert Marcuse
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned. -- Yayoi Kusama
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live. -- Angela Davis
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception. -- Robert Motherwell
Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist. -- Theodor Adorno
A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art. -- Jeffrey Lewis
Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society. -- Genco Gulan
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation. -- Albert Camus
Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it. -- Dave Hickey
paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality. -- Naguib Mahfouz
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing. -- Van Day Truex
One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art". - Herbert Marcuse -- Manfred Eigen
Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more. -- Georg Baselitz
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. -- Jeanette Winterson
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art." -- Roman Payne
Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color -- John F. Kennedy
Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms. -- Colin McGinn
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. -- Oscar Wilde
If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings. -- Joseph Campbell
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
Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society. -- Emile Zola
Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist. -- Naguib Mahfouz
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas. -- Philip Kaufman
All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society. -- Eric Hoffer
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. -- Hans Haacke
Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. -- Edmund Burke
Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the arts. -- Ken Danby
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved. -- Herbert Read
Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different. -- Jacob Bronowski
To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together. -- Jacob Bronowski
To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries. -- Peter M. Brant
I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society. -- Martin Firrell
The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art. -- Frederick C. Beiser
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. -- Liza Campbell
The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible. -- Henry A. Kissinger
As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts. -- Adrienne Rich

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