Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Artists are never poor, they just don't get enough time to make money !”

— Brahmananda Patra

“You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

“If we, citizens do not support our artists, then we sacrifice out imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing…

— Yann Martel

“Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good…

— Anthony Burgess

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

— Nhat Hanh

Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the…

— Sherwood Anderson

“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or herself an…

— Lena Andersson

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we…

— Alice Walker

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.

— Diego Rivera

“... when people are getting poorer, and children are growing more hungry and sick all around you, it is simply not enough for an…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.”

— Oliver Gaspirtz