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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope,… — John Mason Good 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
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 arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education… — Dana Gioia 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
“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
“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
“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
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
Political correctness is the fascism of the 90's, it is this rigid feeling that you have to keep your ideas and your… — Roger Ebert 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
“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
The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being. — Svetlana Alexievich 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
