The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
“The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate— it is life, intensified, brilliant life. ALAIN ARIAS-MISSON” — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the… — David Hare Copy Share Image
Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When you're an artist, you're working, literally, for the sole purpose of art, and when people discredit you, it's probably the most… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
“I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow,… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
The saying "the business of art is different than the purpose of art" makes sense, and what are you going to do… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Seurat and Signac mixed paintings with the dry and abstract laws of science. This approach, in my opinion, usually strays from the… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
“The purpose of art is to elevate the spirit or to pay a surgeon’s bill. Or both. It can help a person… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“it is widely believed that the purpose of art is to challenge, to question, to transgress, never to celebrate, to harmonise, to… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
There are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more.… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
