Art Quote by Paul Klee

Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majorityis material. When these worlds meet…

— Paul Klee

If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are…

— William Greider

Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic. Democracy is…

— Herbert Hoover

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

— Walter Legge

I think that democracy has a lowest common denominator thing going on, so it might be the best of a bad bunch of political…

— Grayson Perry

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

— Nancy Gibbs

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

— Gore Vidal

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien…

— Flora Lewis

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology,…

— Walt Whitman

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

— Paul Biya

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world….because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you…

— Tony Benn

I'm happy that the evolution of art in the past 25 years, and the place of art in global culture-and even finance-has gotten to…

— Tony Shafrazi