Art Quote by J. Paul Getty

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.

— Herb Kawainui Kane

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our…

— Agnes Repplier

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

— George Oppen

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.

— Rupert Friend

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

— Cyril Connolly

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

— William Butler Yeats

The arts don't exist in isolation.

— David Byrne

It would, of course, be wrong to say that the arts have no social value. They have tremendous power and can often, indirectly, make…

— Munira Mirza

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

— Jean Kerr