“Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.” ArtMomentsCreativitySawsSurvivalArt IsStrategyThat MomentSparksOptional Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.” IfsArtDifferentArtistSurvivalArt IsRealmsIntegratingRenounceProfaneOmnipotent Book:Prisms Source: Prisms
“Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?” ArtCountryMatterNationsSupportPrideSurvivalUnderstoodArt IsShameFranceIrelandSwedenAustriaNational Pride Author:Theodore Bikel
“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.” IfsKindArtWholeStoriesLastsArtistKindnessSurvivalArt IsConfessionAnguishVomiting Author:James A. Baldwin
“All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether this truth serves or hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.” MenHumansArtRealityFormPurposeGivenExistenceConflictSurvivalArt IsEssenceVariousRevolutionaryGreat ArtHuman SocietyHinderTransitory Author:Erich Fromm