Art Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.

— Thomas Merton

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this.…

— Joshua Reynolds

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

— Anonymous

The end of art is peace.

— Seamus Heaney

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

— John Stuart Mill

The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their…

— Joseph Conrad

Art is something that never ends.

— Daniyal Butt

Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving…

— Rachel Kushner

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

— Anonymous

Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are with God…

— Ken Wilber

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

— Tennessee Williams

I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art…

— Tilda Swinton