Art Quote by J. W. N. Sullivan Download Open image “... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness” — J. W. N. Sullivan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Certain Consciousness Function Increase Philosophy of Mind Real Self Self consciousness
The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible. — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness. — Brandon Victor Dixon Copy Share Image
“Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly,… — Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto Copy Share Image
Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own. — Brassai Copy Share Image
Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
It is much easier to make measurements than to know exactly what you are measuring — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
We have reached one of the great stages in the adventure of thought … We are required to see the universe with new eyes,… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at present, still an article of faith. — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is only in exceptional moods that we realize how wonderful are the commonest experiences of life. It seems to me sometimes that these… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine is a… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
To be willing to suffer in order to create is one thing; to realize that one's creation necessitates one's suffering, that suffering is one… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
