Art Quote by Eugenio Montale

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

— Richard Serra

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to…

— Hans Haacke

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

— Peter Guber

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

— Chuck Close

My own view is that the arts are neither superior nor inferior to anything else that goes on in schools.

— Michael Rosen

There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics...

— Ian Mcewan

The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

— Vanessa Redgrave

Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.

— Richard Eyre

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

— John Luther Adams

The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a…

— Barbara Jordan

New arts destroy the old.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Artists should agitate and democratize their own work, but they should also work to democratize the arts themselves.

— Daniel H. Pink