Art Quote by Paul Klee

Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds…

— 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

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

— Gore Vidal

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

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'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

Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing,…

— Uta Hagen

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

— George R. R. Martin

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

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

“The false democracy that places art and random uploads side by side has, I believe, led too many to believe that art is easy…

— Jonathan Taplin