Art Necessity Quotes

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

A life without music is an error.

I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society.... A society without art will die.

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

We do need sculpture. People always say: 'Well, that sculpture could have paid for a cot in a maternity ward.' But if the world had been run on those lines, there'd only be about four books, and they'd be seed-drill manuals.

I think it would be criminal if there was no art in school.