Art Quote by Nina Simone Download Open image ““It is an artist's duty to reflect the times.”” — Nina Simone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Civil rights Music Nina-simone Time
You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
There is a Nina Simone quote, 'It is an artist's duty to reflect the times.' This quote is everything to me and I believe… — Raye Copy Share Image
“The duty of the artist lies in keeping alive a sense of wonder in the world.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.” — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“But art is supposed to enlighten, isn’t it? Not just reflect? It’s to show us the best of the present modeled in the best… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
“The work of the artist is to lift up people's hearts and help them endure.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The painter had achieved what we would all like to do: capture time and make it stand still” — Lian Hearn Copy Share Image
“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.” — Ivan Fernandez Copy Share Image
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music...… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
