Art Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

— Anais Nin

“You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not…

— Oscar Wilde

“My pop always said poverty fucks with you... makes you think you can do things you really can't and start selling your soul for…

— J.J. McAvoy

“Poverty will make the best people bad, if it gets hard enough. Why there’s so much of it in the world, I’m sure I…

— George Gissing

“beyond blows and hunger there is something that hurts even more: poverty”

— Jacob Dinezon

“If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.”

— Seneca

“Poverty is the surest way to weigh down a soul. And weighted soul does whatever it can do to get some burden off.”

— Jessica Gadziala

“A photograph of poverty is not a photograph but it is a knife that sticks into the hearts of everyman who looks at it!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Poverty can’t rob me of those memories. I have lived in an ideal world that was not deceitful, a world which seems to me,…

— George Gissing

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

— Ben Jonson

“I think poverty is not the worst thing in the world, blindness is, because blind people cannot see your beauty.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people.”

— Sunday Adelaja