Aim Quote by George Henry Lewes

The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion.

— Ernest Holmes

To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant…

— Edgar Cayce

These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense…

— Richard Wagner

You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and…

— Vernon Howard

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the…

— Northrop Frye

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.

— Eric Drooker

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

— Norman Mailer

Now, when you are aware, you see the whole process of your thinking and action, but it can happen only when there is no…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Oh let us not be condemned for what we are. It is enough to account for what we do.

— James Fenton

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