Art Quote by Bernard Berenson

The artist is justified by his art.

— Lewis Foreman Day

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.

— Mervyn Levy

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

— Jim Carrey

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

— Norman Mailer

“I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public…

— Glenn Gould

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big…

— Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

Art is right reason in the doing of work.

— Thomas Aquinas

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

— Brassai

Art has to be able to match life, to respond to the ever-changing forms of the world, to electrify the audience.

— Haris Pasovic

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

— Pablo Picasso

The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective…

— Max Scheler

The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and…

— W. Eugene Smith