Art Quote by Amiri Baraka Download Open image “Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.” — Amiri Baraka ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Class Class struggle Ideas Struggle Weapons
Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class. — Geoff Rickly Copy Share Image
“In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from sordid political… — DeWitt Henry Parker Copy Share Image
A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning. — Mickey Hart Copy Share Image
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its importance, relegating… — John A. Hiigli Copy Share Image
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have people who… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I'm fully conscious all the time that I'm an American Negro, because it's part of my life. But I also know that if I… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“Poems are bullshit unless they are teeth or trees or lemons piled on a step. Or black ladies dying of men leaving nickel hearts beating them down. Fuck poems and they are useful, wd they shoot come at you, love what you are, breathe like wrestlers, or shudder strangely after pissing. We want live words of the hip world live… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share
Thought is more important than art…To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and terrible as… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
