Art Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system…

— Roy DeCarava

Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of…

— Jon Pareles

Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.

— Louise Bourgeois

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some…

— Anne Roiphe

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important…

— Hilary Rosen

Artists are often the barometers of society.

— Nancy Pearcey

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and…

— Marvin Gaye

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

— Andres Serrano

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

— Nhat Hanh

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we…

— Mohsin Hamid

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense…

— Sharon Salzberg