Art Quote by Lola Kirke

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

— Simon Callow

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that…

— Ken Danby

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their…

— Anna Deavere Smith

I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at…

— John D. Rockefeller III

Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the material and…

— Julian Johnson

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of…

— Lesley Garrett

There's certainly no doubt that commercialism has entered classical music to such a degree that almost no one seems to care anymore about the…

— Stephen Hough

The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way…

— David Rubenstein

In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they…

— Aldous Huxley