Art Quote by Samuel Lipman

“All that's really required is that anything the state does in relation to the arts is laid on the table where we can see…

— Ian McEwan

“A nation may be moved by its statesmen and defined by its military but it's usually remembered for its artists.”

— John Steinbeck

“But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“States are built not on the ideals but on the nature of men.”

— Will Durant

“The state, rather, is a parasitic institution that lives off the wealth of its subjects, concealing its anti-social, predatory nature beneath a public-interest veneer.”

— Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr

“statehood was crucial to future national existence.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Art is not a mobocracy. It’s a republic.”

— Richard Powers

“Civilization lies in the mind, not in attire or books.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“We [artists] aren't people, not the way most people are. We're just...carriers. Little boats bringing goods from foreign lands.”

— Sam Starbuck

“Of course, the irony is that the kind of centralized administrative state Croly advocated, and which surrounds us today and is managed by a…

— Mark R. Levin

“Review history, visionaries advanced our civilization. Without them, we'd have been still in a barbaric and chaotic world. Thank you!!!”

— Assegid Habtewold

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”

— Frederic Bastiat