Art Quote by Igor Stravinsky

I think there is something so compelling about the truth that whether you're a lawyer or judge or an actor, when you get at…

— Sarah Jones

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

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

— Ron Silver

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

— George Henry Lewes

Being honest in the spotlight is the worst idea . But I do like when artists are honest and are able to build a…

— Rita Ackermann

Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just…

— Leon Krier

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their…

— John Frederick Boyes

I think art is much more valuable when it's honest. If it's not honest, it's just propaganda.

— Justin Simien

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are…

— Simone Weil

Public opinion which, to be sure, can at times be helpful, must never for an instant swerve us from what we know in our…

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

You do something you're really quite proud of, and the public doesn't like it. Then you do something that perhaps you're not at all…

— Les Dawson