Argument Quote by Constantin Brancusi

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Carrie Brownstein

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

— Bell Hooks

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

— Yoko Ono

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

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

— Jean Dubuffet

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

— Michiko Kakutani

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world,

— Dana Gioia

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

— Joseph Beuys

“Art is not art if it has a function.”

— Brandon Sanderson

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

— D. H. Lawrence

Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better,…

— Seth Godin