Art Quote by David Byrne

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

— Anais Nin

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

— Willie Nelson

Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the…

— Sherwood Anderson

“You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

— Apuleius

I don’t believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That’s bullshit.

— David Byrne

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

— Ben Jonson

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come…

— Amy Sedaris

“Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy”

— Munia Khan

Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the…

— Eric Hoffer

People who are living in economic struggle are more than their circumstances. They're majestic and creative and beautiful.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.

— Marina Keegan