Art Quote by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of…

— Henry Green

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

— Josef Albers

I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.

— David Hare

We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired goal; He is not...What we call the process God…

— Oswald Chambers

“We’re set in motion and then we spend our lives maintaining that motion, but to what end? For what purpose?”

— Carrie Ryan

The anti-evolution forces have been searching for a new strategy that would accomplish the same end. That purpose is, if not to get evolution…

— Kenneth R. Miller

All people end up somewhere in life, but few end up there on purpose.

— Craig Groeschel

As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.

— William Shakespeare

“And it is because you don't know the end and purpose of things that you think the wicked and the criminal have power and…

— Boethius

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge…

— Aldous Huxley

Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.

— Barack Obama

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far…

— Adam Smith