Art Quote by Amedeo Modigliani Download Open image “The function of art is to struggle against obligation.” — Amedeo Modigliani ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Function Obligation Responsibility Struggle
“art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose” — Walter Pater 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 console, to… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms. — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself. — Amedeo Modigliani Copy Share Image
I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps... — Amedeo Modigliani Copy Share Image
What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human… — Amedeo Modigliani Copy Share Image
Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic… — Amedeo Modigliani Copy Share Image
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race. — Amedeo Modigliani Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
