Art Quote by Claude Picasso Download Open image “You have laws to protect oil men, so why not artists?” — Claude Picasso ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Laws Men Oil Protect Why
Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products. — John Updike Copy Share Image
We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it? — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or something that… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
As many have said before me, artists are creative people who can't be dragged into the politics of nations. I have always made a… — Mahira Khan Copy Share Image
Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists. — A. Y. Jackson Copy Share Image
I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want to do… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I think what I most admired about my father was his extraordinary courage. He had such energy to pursue whatever he wanted, and he… — Claude Picasso Copy Share Image
I'm not going to run around uselessly spending money. It's a matter of choosing your charity. Some people choose themselves. For me, that is… — Claude Picasso Copy Share Image
I remember so well my father's complete concentration when he went to the studio. Everything he did, every movement he made, he did with… — Claude Picasso Copy Share Image
My mother tells me that I was a very busy, curious child and that I quite often challenged my father when I was little,… — Claude Picasso Copy Share Image
I could have been born into any family. I was fortunate that I was born to an artist as extraordinary as Picasso, and Picasso… — Claude Picasso Copy Share Image
Pablo Picasso was generous. But he always signed and dedicated his gifts even when he knew that people would sell them because they needed… — Claude Picasso Copy Share Image
My father had been an avid fan of Chaplin during the silent film days, but when the talkies came along, my father lost all… — Claude Picasso Copy Share Image
I think it's a pity for him that my father didn't have the pleasure of seeing me grow up. I think he missed out… — Claude Picasso 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