America Quote by Thomas Beecham

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

— Hillary Clinton

Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.

— Patti Smith

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

— Henry Rollins

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its…

— Edmund Wilson

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

— Chuck Close

The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art…

— Carrie Coon

There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and…

— Walter Savage Landor

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

— Jack London

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

— James Earl Jones

The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and you can…

— Wynton Marsalis

Art often reflects what's going on in the world, and we're seeing stories that are very diverse and that are lead and made by…

— Elisabeth Moss