Art Quote by Bell Hooks

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

— Jean Dubuffet

I think that art has the ability to capture people's imaginations and make them think that more is possible.

— Shepard Fairey

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.

— Sol Saks

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

— J. W. N. Sullivan

I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.

— Carrie Brownstein

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

— Yoko Ono

For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.

— Michiko Kakutani

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world

— Andre Maurois

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

— Vincent Price

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

— Magdalena Abakanowicz

Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of…

— Ali Smith

... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

— Daniel Bell