Art Quote by Elizabeth Catlett Download Open image ““Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.”” — Elizabeth Catlett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aids Liberation Art Art Important Artist Freedom Important Liberation Liberation People
“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.” — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
“In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from sordid political… — DeWitt Henry Parker Copy Share Image
“Art is magic, and art is powerful. Art saves lives- I really believe that. It gives us courage and compassion we might not have… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
“Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.” — Jan Zwicky Copy Share Image
“Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.” — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“Art cannot save the world, but it does help you understand the world inside of you.” — Krist Pauwels Copy Share Image
“art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose” — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that art can change the world. But at least art can help us to unveil life.” — Eugene Lim Copy Share Image
“The function of art is to make people like life more than they do.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful; always it is irrelevant. For, to appreciate a work of… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
“For me, art is the desire to preserve the intangible feeling of such a moment, hidden in all the littlest details, and then to… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the… — Elizabeth Catlett Copy Share Image
“I have always wanted my art to service my people… We have to create an art for liberation and for life” — Elizabeth Catlett Copy Share Image
“I was born in the US and l have lived in Mexico since 1946. I believe that all these states of being have influenced… — Elizabeth Catlett Copy Share Image
I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us… — Elizabeth Catlett 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