Art Quote by Robert Heinlein Download Open image “A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! Robert A.” — Robert Heinlein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Government Politics
“Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible,… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“If you are an artist who pays too much attention this system and its politics, you are in deep trouble because you have become… — John Seed Copy Share Image
Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“The uncounted days slid past while he argued with himself over the things that bothered him-problems that had made sad the soul of his… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
“It’s the bell curve again,” I said to Ishtar. “If—as Lazarus thinks, and statistics back him up—every migration comes primarily from the right-hand end… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching oversized braincase and the opposable thumb—this animal barely up from the apes—will endure, will endure… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Apparently Blank thinks I am a nice accommodating guy, please explain to him that I am a son of a bitch” — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
“It scared him a little. He had once heard, and was inclined to credit, that a loss of interest in living marked the true… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured...the only solution known to science is to provide the… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
“He had intended at first to send Ford down in the Chili. It was not gratitude that changed his mind, but respect. Once he… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see,… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
