Art Quote by Gabriel García Márquez

No arts, no letters - no society.

— Thomas Hobbes

“Sooner or later people believe writers rather than the government.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I don't suppose there has been a moment in the world's history where more people felt themselves to be artists, of when less art…

— Auberon Waugh

“Art is not a democracy.”

— George R. R. Martin

“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about the public.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Almost as a rule, political dissidents were writers.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“There was nothing particularly striking about them except that they were artists of the kind that talk. Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout…

— Sherwood Anderson

“Without our artists and storytellers, we have no history, and without history your future is unmoored -- we drift. It is art, never war,…

— Sharon E. McKay

“Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a book to…

— Chinua Achebe

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

“Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work of art…

— Happy Positivity