Art Quotes

"Art has the power to reach people where politics alone cannot."

"Art speaks to the soul in ways that statistics and policy papers cannot."

"Art and culture are not luxuries - they're essential to how we imagine and create different futures."

"Art is the only honest voice in a world of lies."

"Art without meaning is just decoration."

"I've always understood making films to be a political act."

"Art is a weapon of freedom."

"Literature and art can inspire climate action."

"Art can communicate climate urgency powerfully."

"The art of living well is learning to live within the limits of the earth."

"Poetry is not a luxury. For women, poetry is as necessary as breathing."

"Art cannot be separated from politics, and never has been."

"Art is one of the few spaces where you can still tell the truth without being interrupted."

"Art is the antidote to the numbing effects of modern life."

"Art and culture are tools for imagining the worlds we want to create."

"To be alive to the Earth is to be alive to all her voices, all her creatures, all her songs."

"Art can communicate truths about our environment that data alone cannot."

"Language shapes how we see the world, so we must reclaim it."

"I want to write about people I love, and put them in situations that work for me."

"Art is the mirror we hold up to society."

"Art is the effort to make habitations and make these habitations beautiful."

"Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."

"The photographs speak what words cannot express about the beauty we stand to lose."

"Photography is not a luxury; it is a form of witness."

"Photographs are powerful because they tell no lies, only truths we are unwilling to see."

"The photographs show what words cannot: the beauty we are about to lose."

"Art is not a luxury, but a necessity for mankind."

"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."

"Art without revolution is decoration; revolution without art is propaganda."

"Art is the voice of the voiceless."