Art Quote by Denis Dutton Download Open image “Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.” — Denis Dutton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Humans Nature of man
The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts. — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art. — Man Ray Copy Share Image
Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others. — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story. — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Art is Nature made by Man / To Man the interpreter of God. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
The fact that biological, or atural rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and… — David Walker Copy Share Image
Why make art ? To quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant. — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
I have seen journals with good financial backing and editorial support die because they looked so bad nobody wanted to publish them. — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value. — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is. — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of… — Denis Dutton 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
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