The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity. — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others. — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own. — Brassai Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“That, he thought, was the essential purpose of art—to capture the universal in the everyday, which was particular to their here and… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting… — Henry Green Copy Share Image
The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Design always has a purpose, art has no purpose. That's really the difference between them. Do I think one is better than… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
I have not attempted to try to relive or recreate the past; but I have sought guidance from those timeless elements in… — Frederick Hart Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics.… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
The purpose of pure science is to observe phenomena and to trace their laws; the purpose of art is to produce, modify,… — Joseph William Mellor Copy Share Image
In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is when we create things for God's sake that our work most clearly promotes His glory, rather than threatening to compete… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say the purpose of making art is to enjoy it necessarily. For me, it happens to be the thing I… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. This… — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
“My theory is that the purpose of art is to transmit universal truths of a sort, but of a particular sort, that… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Air, food, shelter, clothing and water are the means of life. Yet, next to the love of God and others, it is… — John Lars Zwerenz Copy Share Image
For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
