African american Quote by Leontyne Price

I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in…

— Jason Ralph

I have long argued for the arts to have the recognition and funding they need, not only because they brighten our lives, but also…

— Luciana Berger

Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and it gravitates…

— Aleksandar Hemon

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

— Mohsin Hamid

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

— Jeff Koons

The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power, to reproduce…

— Fady Joudah

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

— Adam Davidson

Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.

— John Updike

It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very…

— Esperanza Spalding

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

— Hillary Clinton

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

— Paul Auster