Art Quote by Cyril Connolly

The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

— Joseph Campbell

The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work…

— Joseph Campbell

The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

— Herbert Read

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

— Romare Bearden

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

— Max Planck

“We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.”

— Twyla Tharp

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate…

— Marina Abramovic

The most important function of art and science is to Awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive.

— Albert Einstein

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

— Havelock Ellis

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great…

— Joseph Campbell

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive…

— Patti Smith

An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool

— Michael Jackson