Art Quote by Gustave Courbet

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them….Ill fares the race which…

— Winston Churchill

As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from…

— John F. Kennedy

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

— Margaret Caroline Anderson

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be…

— Nick Cave

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

— Steve Earle

I'm a writer who doesn't much think about money because money doesn't really care about me. In other nations, art gets subsidized. Writers aren't…

— Kimberly Peirce

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

— Andre Breton

It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to…

— Lynn Nottage

Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic.

— Micah Lexier

There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

— Adam Smith

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

— Stephen Graham Jones