Michel Foucault Quotes

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.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

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.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

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

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital.

If we talk about art in general... all the works of art, each one of them could reflect a moment in the history of mankind, the time in which it was created.

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

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

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

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

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.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

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