Naomi Alderman Quotes

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

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.

The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such.

I believe that the arts of a culture are terribly important and yet almost indefensible.

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

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

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

No country is fully civilized which cannot appreciate its artists. They make a contribution not just to the entertainment side of life, but to the educational, economic and spiritual sides.

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.

I think, in the West, we often discount the arts as nice but not that important. Certainly in America when we cut funding for schools, the arts are the first programs to go. But the arts built the things we need more than anything else: collaboration and co-operation and creativity.

The National Gallery is the place that means to represent everything that's good and important in art and show what it believes everyone who is a citizen should recognize and engage.

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.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.

We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.