Art Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

— Helen Keller

Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny.

— Zoe Kazan

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

— Ronald Harwood

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Blest is that government where no art thrives.

— Thomas Nashe

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no gap between art and politics.

— Bruce Cockburn

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

— Anonymous

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

— Jim Rohn

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.

— Thomas Paine

All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system,…

— Ben Shahn

Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon…

— Wyndham Lewis