Art Quote by Hortense Powdermaker

Artists are often the barometers of society.

— Nancy Pearcey

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

— Maya Lin

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his…

— William Morris Hunt

As an artist, you're just observing the world around you. So much is overwhelming and it's all so inescapable that it can't all speak…

— Laura Jane Grace

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

— Jeffrey Lewis

I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.

— Kehinde Wiley

“Art (including literature) is the barometer of a culture. It reflects the sum of a society’s deepest philosophical values: not its professed notions and…

— Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto

The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends…

— Paul Strand

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad

The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

— Asher Brown Durand

The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured, and highly…

— Ben Shahn