"Artists don't create society, they reflect it" — Ben Elton

"Artists don't create society, they reflect it"

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37 Quotes by Ben Elton

Ben Elton has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word…
I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get…
You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even…
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little…
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty…
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth…
We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can…
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they…

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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