Art Quote by Thomas Sowell

As taxpayers, we have quietly accepted the fact that our taxes will be spent to pay big bucks for all sorts of ugly, twisted…

— Thomas Sowell

Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up, which is…

— Mike Huckabee

The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we…

— Chris Hedges

[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

— Ernst Levy

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

— Louise Bourgeois

I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the…

— Robert Hass

I really believe that art has to play a role in changing the moral direction. Mean, selfish people are in charge of the government…

— Steve Almond

...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public...should be proud of being…

— Leo Steinberg

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over…

— Peter Block

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

— Michele Cassou

And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it…

— Richard Serra

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom…

— Oscar Wilde