Art Quote by Ben Elton Download Open image “Artists don't create society, they reflect it” — Ben Elton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Community Creativity
Our job as artists, we believe, is not to make changes in society. We don't have the ability to do that. We reflect life.… — John Kani Copy Share Image
In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I believe an artiste is a reflection of society. I write what I see. I am not a scholar, I am just an entertainer.… — Yo Yo Honey Singh Copy Share Image
And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Artists have a tremendous purpose in society, which is to continually expose, to continually challenge and to never stop producing. To never stop creating,… — Andrea Suarez Paz Copy Share Image
We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture. — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs. — Andres Serrano Copy Share Image
“[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance.” — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
“People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves” — ben elton Copy Share Image
We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
“We've just lost our way, that's all. But what if you could give us a chance to do better? Just one chance? One single… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running. — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
“New York will always seem more real than anything Britain has to offer. It is strange that, although the majority of British people have… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s. — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and… — Ben Elton 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… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“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… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“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
