Art Quote by Martin Filler

art is the pulse of a nation.

— Gertrude Stein

Across the world, wherever good art has been created, that society has been in crisis.

— Pankaj Tripathi

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

— Morgan Parker

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human…

— Eric Hoffer

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

— Paul Tillich

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

— Emma Goldman

All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence…

— Erich Fromm

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

— Dave Hickey

If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must be an…

— Frederick Hart

Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.

— Ziad Doueiri

Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights…

— Pauli Murray

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

— Louise Bogan