Appreciation Quote by T. S. Eliot

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

— Frank Norris

What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so…

— Jane Hirshfield

Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.

— Eliel Saarinen

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it.…

— Michelle Obama

No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

— Barbra Streisand

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

— Vincent Price

“Art is central to all our lives, not just the better-off and educated. . . I know that from my own story, and from…

— Jeanette Winterson

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals,…

— Michel Foucault

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own…

— Jeff Koons

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and…

— 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 F. Kennedy