Art Quote by Rebecca West

Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art.…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

— Nadine Gordimer

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and…

— Katherine Anne Porter

I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of…

— Eleanor Catton

There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or zealots who…

— John Boorman

Literature is the expression of society.

— Charles Nodier

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this…

— Wayne Shorter

“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its place and…

— Michael Richardson

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

— Theodor Adorno

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

— Chuck Close