Art Quote by Glenn Ligon

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

— Ali Smith

Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better,…

— Seth Godin

The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective…

— Max Scheler

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.

— Jerry Saltz

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

— Yoko Ono

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

— Henry James

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

— Keanu Reeves

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

— Brassai

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

— Henry Miller

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.

— Guy Davenport

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if…

— Eric Drooker

For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.

— Michiko Kakutani