Acquire Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when…

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs.

— Horace Walpole

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

I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the…

— Wadada Leo Smith

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when…

— John F. Kennedy

Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

— Stuart Pearson Wright

As we honor and take time to appreciate the arts we expand the beauty and culture of society.

— Senoraroy

One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They…

— Vincent Price

You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.

— Mos Def