Art Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Art changes people people change the world.

— John Butler

In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the…

— Bat for Lashes

The freer a society becomes, the freer its arts can flourish and be exported.

— Rod Lurie

My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of…

— Magdalena Abakanowicz

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when…

— John F. Kennedy

Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves…

— Francis Parkman

Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends on individual…

— Sarah Thornton

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals,…

— Michel Foucault

The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to…

— Thomas Kinkade

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

— Theodor Adorno

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the…

— Herbert Marcuse