Advantage Quote by Arlo Guthrie

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

— George Grosz

Spending money on art has always been frowned upon in this country - even earlier, when my and others' paintings cost almost nothing. Something…

— Georg Baselitz

In capitalist terms, art is a global marketplace and artistic labour is too.

— Munira Mirza

I can fully understand [that] artists want to be able to pay their bills. As a fan of art, and art as a way…

— Bruce Pavitt

... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their…

— Hannah Arendt

Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.

— Horace Bushnell

In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they…

— Aldous Huxley

“If [modern artists] hadn’t lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because the ordinary…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of art being…

— Shepard Fairey

When someone tries to take over a country or a culture, they destroy the art.

— Jonathan Majors

“In a fearful, eroding democracy, it remains to be seen whether art continues to be free to act in the public sphere or is…

— Gregory Sholette

I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't…

— Lyor Cohen