Art Quote by Henry James

... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

— Daniel Bell

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

— Jim Carrey

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

— Svetlana Alexievich

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Brassai

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will…

— Wendy Beckett

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

— Pope John Paul II

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

— Bernard Berenson

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future…

— Paul Cezanne

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

— Thomas Merton

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

— Richard Wagner