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