Purpose Of Art Quotes

• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Dust, Soul

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• The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

  Pope John Paul II

  Art, Purpose, Spirit

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• Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.

  eL Seed

  Art, People, Humanity

  Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

  Aristotle

  Art, Reality, Purpose

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• The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

  James A. Baldwin

  Art, Answers, Purpose

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• Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Inspire, Purpose

  Interview with Jonathan Cott, www.rollingstone.com. January 26, 1978.

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• The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

  Brassai

  Art, People, Purpose

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• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Truth, Lying

  The Arts, May 1923

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• The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Purpose, Conscious

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• The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Fighting, Purpose

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• The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.

  Michael Moore

  Art, Purpose, Cases

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• The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

  Glenn Gould

  Art, Purpose, Wonder

  Commencement address at York University, Toronto, Canada, 6 Nov. 1982

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• The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

  Norman Mailer

  Art, People, Finals

  1959 'Hip, Hell, and The Navigator', in Western Review, no.23, Winter.

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• The purpose of art is to stop time.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Time, Art

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• The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.

  Dana Gioia

  Art, Real, Successful

  Commencement speech, Stanford University, June 17, 2007.

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• The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Purpose, Enthusiasm

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• The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

  Edward de Bono

  Art, Hero, People

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• The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

  Josef Albers

  Art, Purpose, Art Is

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• The purpose of art is mystery.

  Rene Magritte

  Art, Purpose, Mystery

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• Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Art, Love Life, Purpose

  Source: www.ign.com

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• For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.

  Paul Auster

  Beautiful, Art, Struggle

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.131, Penguin

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• The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

  Jim Carrey

  Art, People, Purpose

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• The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

  Glenn Gould

  Art, Serenity, Purpose

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• In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in the evolution of feelings, which takes place by means of art. Lower feelings-less kind and less needed for the good of humanity-are forced out and replaced by kinder feelings which better serve us individually and collectively. This is the purpose of art.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Mean, Feelings

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• The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Giving, Purpose

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