Artistic Quote by Samuel R. Delany

What a society deems important is enshrined in its art

— Harry S. Broudy

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

— Vanna Bonta

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

— Jeffrey Lewis

“Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders. I don't blame them in the smallest degree. I should fancy that crime was to them what…

— Oscar Wilde

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

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“In the end, people are only able to think and feel within the limits of the "system", the specific culture of the society they…

— Yukito Ayatsuji

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

— Shirin Neshat

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

— Ben Elton

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

— Jane Smiley

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

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important…

— Vladimir Nabokov