Art Quote by Erich Fromm

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.

— Erich Fromm

Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without…

— Ken Danby

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to…

— Rockwell Kent

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

— Julia Cameron

To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes…

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Art has the power to bring people together - in communion.

— Shobana

All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system,…

— Ben Shahn

A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art'…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

We need to make sure that the powers that be know that arts education is as vital and as important as geography and arithmetic.…

— Rosie O'Donnell

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the…

— Allen Ginsberg

“To write without any awareness of a tradition you are trying to become a part of would be self-defeating. Every artist alive responds to…

— Dorianne Laux

To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes…

— John F. Kennedy