Art Quote by George Grosz

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the…

— George Grosz

When someone tries to take over a country or a culture, they destroy the art.

— Jonathan Majors

Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.

— Pablo Picasso

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

— Theodor Adorno

Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

— Langdon Brown Gilkey

You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same…

— Arlo Guthrie

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

— Jasper Johns

“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

“[...] For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free. They surround us in the same way…

— John Berger

Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.

— Ziad Doueiri

Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

— Dave Hickey