Art Quotes by Chinua Achebe

Art should be on the side of humanity.

— Chinua Achebe

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the…

— Chinua Achebe

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

— Chinua Achebe

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

— Chinua Achebe

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

— Chinua Achebe

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

— Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement…

— Chinua Achebe

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see…

— Chinua Achebe

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see…

— Chinua Achebe

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us,…

— Chinua Achebe

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his…

— Chinua Achebe

Good leaders, competent leaders must see it as primary task to create friendliness. This something within the scope of most people. Now…

— Chinua Achebe

“...Let me say that I do think decency and civilization would insist that the writer take sides with the powerless. Clearly, there's…

— Chinua Achebe

Art is created to make us, to make our passage through the world better, fruitful - and I would say that every…

— Chinua Achebe

Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far…

— Chinua Achebe