Art Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

Art is as useful as bread.

— Azar Nafisi

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

— Ariel Gore

... 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

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

— W. H. Auden

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We…

— Winston Churchill

I just make what I'm making, and then one day I won't want to make it anymore. I think that's a luxury we should…

— Vince Staples

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

— Andre Malraux

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and…

— Katherine Anne Porter

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in…

— William Faulkner

If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life.

— Justin R. Durban

We don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be.

— Kim Young-ha