Art Quote by Vincent Price
““I have come more and more to the belief that we owe our arts a thousand times what we are paying them. We support our cigarette factories, soap manufacturers, beauticians, all the luxury and pleasure businesses of our over-indulged civilization, but we pay our painters an average wage... and yet when the future digs us from the past they won't care how we smell, what we smoke, or if we bathed. All they’ll know of us will be our architecture, our paintings, sculpture, poems, laws, philosophy, drama, our pottery and fabrics, the things which our hands made and our minds thought up - oh, the machines they’ll dig up too, but perhaps they’ll point to them as our destruction, the wheels that drove us down to death.””
About This Quote
Source Interview: The Art of Acting, 1970
Society undervalues artists while heavily supporting consumer industries, yet future generations will judge us by our cultural creations.
In simple terms: Artists are underpaid, yet our legacy rests on art.
Key Takeaway
Advocate for fair compensation for artists.
Themes
art
valuation
legacy
Mood
reflective
passionate
Type
philosophical
activist
When to use this quote
- policy advocacy
- public funding
- artist unions
- educational campaigns
Key Concepts
cultural economics
social critique
future legacy
Questions to Reflect On
- How can we shift public perception of artistic value?
- What policies could ensure sustainable artist wages?
A Different Perspective
Economic constraints limit funding for the arts.
