Art Quote by Leon Trotsky

“The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…”

— Dione Lucas

“Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.”

— Anonymous

Economy is essential to all good art.

— Jerry Seinfeld

Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger,…

— Jean Dubuffet

“Economics is the tool we hide behind today in order to justify an abhorrent track record of abuses of human rights and degradation of…

— Steve Carlsson

“As a working definition of art, I lean toward Tolstoy's: "Art is a human activity having for it's purpose the transmission to other of…

— Gene Logsdon

“On the deepest level, problems such as war and starvation are not solved by economics and politics alone. Their source is prejudice and fear…

— Joseph Goldstein

“art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose”

— Walter Pater

“Capitalism tends to do to art what value meals do to cuisine. Think of what the food industry in our nation has done to…

— Michael Gungor

Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment…

— Irving Stone

“For art is about desire, is it not, and never its consummation?”

— A. Manette Ansay

“Art needs motives that are more profound than profit if it is to maintain its difference from—and position above—other cultural forms.”

— Sarah Thornton