Agree Quote by J. M. Coetzee

... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their…

— Hannah Arendt

If you look at the lives of artists, sitting in nature, painting, having the freedom. I think it's over. I think we're living in…

— Marina Abramovic

Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I can fully understand [that] artists want to be able to pay their bills. As a fan of art, and art as a way…

— Bruce Pavitt

The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at…

— John D. Rockefeller III

Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that…

— Ken Danby

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will…

— Ben Whishaw

“Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it,…

— Betty Edwards

Artists have a tremendous purpose in society, which is to continually expose, to continually challenge and to never stop producing. To never stop creating,…

— Andrea Suarez Paz