Fritz Scholder Quotes

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

Without art, you don't have society. It underpins so much.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Art and life are inseparable.

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.

The arts are what humanize science and history.

Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.

Art is what defines us, what makes us human.

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal.

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

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.

The future of architecture is culture.

Art is science made clear.

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

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.

The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.