Alternatives Quote by Paul Robeson

Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom…

— Paul Robeson

“The scientist has in common with the artist only this: that he can find no better retreat from the world than his work and…

— Max Delbruck

“Our great artists battle on a landscape we cannot chart, with weapons we do not comprehend, against adversaries we find unreal.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“Force, in overabundance, is the enemy of artistry.”

— Tom Verducci

If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which…

— John F. Kennedy

“Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he…

— Mircea Eliade

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

— Philip Schultz

“As you will see, we do not believe that artists have an obligation to strike up attitudes to the war. Indeed, they are wise…

— Ian McEwan

“Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the arts. If…

— Edward St. Aubyn

I think that the first responsibility of an artist is to follow truth, and the innate original forces and energies that are within them.…

— Tony Shafrazi

“The War of Art”

— Vishen Lakhiani