Art Quotes by Joseph Campbell

Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.

— Joseph Campbell

Making the inner meet the outer is the function of the artist.

— Joseph Campbell

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

— Joseph Campbell

Art is the clothing of a revelation

— Joseph Campbell

The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

— Joseph Campbell

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

— Joseph Campbell

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

— Joseph Campbell

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

— Joseph Campbell

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

— Joseph Campbell

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

— Joseph Campbell

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a…

— Joseph Campbell

The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men…

— Joseph Campbell

This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure…

— Joseph Campbell

“The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the safely marked general highways of…

— Joseph Campbell

“Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function…

— Joseph Campbell

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance…

— Joseph Campbell

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation…

— Joseph Campbell

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and…

— Joseph Campbell

A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render... the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany…

— Joseph Campbell

If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon…

— Joseph Campbell

Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual…

— Joseph Campbell

Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and…

— Joseph Campbell

You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how…

— Joseph Campbell

It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that…

— Joseph Campbell

The importance of the End of time is as ... a psychological event ... When you have seen the radiance of eternity…

— Joseph Campbell

“There was a wonderful old man [...] who had a piece of property [...] he would rent out for twenty dollards a…

— Joseph Campbell

In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the…

— Joseph Campbell

“Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and…

— Joseph Campbell

“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines…

— Joseph Campbell

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as…

— Joseph Campbell

Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory…

— Joseph Campbell

It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos…

— Joseph Campbell

This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of,…

— Joseph Campbell