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Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs. — Andres Serrano

In free society art is not a weapon ... Artists are not engineers of the soul. — John F. Kennedy

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it. — Hans Haacke

The pa system has broken down. Society has broken down. — Theresa Sjoquist

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects. — Jane Smiley

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. — Oscar Wilde

Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice. — Sinead O'Connor

we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. With — Oscar Wilde

Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions. — Eric Maisel

Is it any wonder that no truly respectable society has ever trusted its artists? — Ursula K. Le Guin

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society — Marcel Duchamp

A society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists. — Paul Theroux

Artists are often the barometers of society. — Nancy Pearcey

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it. — Osamu Dazai

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. — Roman Payne

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up. — Nhat Hanh

I suppose the artists invented the firm breasts they put on women, and that in reality all women had flabby ones. — Jean Cocteau

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. — Russell Simmons

Artists are the only people in a society who will tell that society the truth about itself. — James Baldwin

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society. — Yoko Ono

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market. — Lawrence Weiner

Artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable. — Elizabeth Bowen

I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility. — Sharon Salzberg

Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous. — Queen Victoria

Artists are the serfs of a leisure society. — Bauvard

Maybe the artist becomes the marshal. It'd probably be a very different kind of society with artists in control. — Joelle Carter

Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory. — Andrei Codrescu

Ocular infidelity is unfortunately rampant in this so called artist's world. — Muse

Artists don't create society, they reflect it — Ben Elton

If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out. — Allan Savory

I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world. — Jose Parla

In a good society, people are interested in the hard lives of the workers, not in the easy lives of the artists and models! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society? — John Kurtz

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character. — Osamu Dazai

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton