Danger Quote by Pablo Picasso

We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In…

— Pablo Picasso

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over…

— Peter Block

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I…

— Eugenio Montale

“It is embedded so deeply in the private lives of our more public shifts that we can forget it is there until a poet…

— Sarah Lewis

To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.

— Nazanin Boniadi

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

— Russell Simmons

My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.

— Nikky Finney

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

— Robert Burns

We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a…

— James Dickey

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.

— Janet Malcolm

Art devoid of danger lacks many other things as well: pleasure, beauty, and the ability to save us. Poems that divest the self of…

— James Allen Hall