Art Quote by Philip Pullman

The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability…

— Naomi Alderman

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

— Hillary Clinton

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and…

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in…

— Jason Ralph

The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious…

— Robert Shaw

The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at…

— John D. Rockefeller III

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

— Ian Mcewan

Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and it gravitates…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So…

— Audra McDonald

The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and you can…

— Wynton Marsalis

Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that…

— Ken Danby