Academy Quote by Bertolt Brecht

We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In…

— Pablo Picasso

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

— Anthony Burgess

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

— Arthur Miller

“As you will see, we do not believe that artists have an obligation to strike up attitudes to the war. Indeed, they are wise…

— Ian McEwan

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

— John F. Kennedy

And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to…

— Felix Mendelssohn

“I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public…

— Glenn Gould

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

— Scilla Elworthy

“The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him; on the one hand, the common…

— Anonymous

“If, in time of peace, our museums and art galleries are important to the community, in time of war they are doubly valuable. For…

— Anonymous

“I will contend until I am shot that art as soon as it is brought into contact with politics inevitably sinks to the level…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Our art is cynical and bad-ass and made by people who will not be happy until you join them in the church of "everything…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates