Art Quote by Edward Albee

Art is an escape from reality.

— Henri Matisse

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

— Jim Carrey

People forget that art is not just a piece of entertainment. It is the place where we collectively declare our values and then act…

— Wendell Pierce

Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only…

— Juliette Lewis

... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at…

— Gabriel Orozco

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

— Salman Rushdie

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in…

— Walton Goggins

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

— Yoko Ono

I think people go to the movies to be entertained, to have an experience, to disappear from their own reality for a couple of…

— Antoine Fuqua

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

— Andre Maurois

The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important. Take film:…

— Brian Eno

It's not ideal when art is seen as just some passing entertainment quickly thrown out into the market, like a consumer object. You have…

— Christine Leunens