Marilyn Manson Quotes

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

The influence of culture and arts is much larger than the influence of economy sometimes.

It would, of course, be wrong to say that the arts have no social value. They have tremendous power and can often, indirectly, make our world a better place to live in.

It never ceases to amaze me how art can touch and inspire people.

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres. But the thing is, I think art is more long-lasting. It stays in people, and it changes them.

Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.

Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the morale of those who hear it.

I don't believe in very many things, but art is definitely one of them. And at the top of that list, film and art influence our world's culture much more than many of us understand and fully respect.

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.

Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.

The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence.

The artist has tremendous power to change the world.

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.

Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk out. Other artists who don't register so keenly at the time, prove to be trailblazers.

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.

Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.