Art Quote by Plautus

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

— Apuleius

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

— Ben Jonson

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

— Anais Nin

“What is Poverty? A hateful good; a mother of health; a putting away of cares; a discoverer of wisdom; business without injury; ownership without…

— Secundus the Silent

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

— Willie Nelson

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

— Anonymous

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert,for he has only himself to sustain and…

— Og Mandino

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to…

— Samuel Johnson

“The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a…

— Christopher Ryan