Art Quote by Viola Davis Download Open image “We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.” — Viola Davis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Politician Politics
We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Artists can be the most powerful people in the world because they can use their voice for good. Politicians should be the most powerful… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an… — Edi Rama Copy Share Image
Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I think artists throughout the history of time have always been controversial and have been a voice to speak to public culture in a… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I was bullied at school. The black girl in Central Falls, Rhode Island, in 1973. There'd be 8 or 10 boys; I would count… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I think that's why August [Wilson] named her Rose [in "Fences"]; I really do. She's a rose in her sweetness and her kindness and… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I suffered from low self-esteem for much of my life. And now to feel like maybe something that I'm projecting or saying could mean… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I tell my daughter every morning, 'Now, what are the two most important parts of you?' And she says, 'My head and my heart.'… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
That's always the biggest surprise when people meet me: how buoyant I am and how fun and light I am. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
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