Art Quote by Jean Dubuffet Download Open image “The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.” — Jean Dubuffet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Function New thought Patterns Philosophy of Mind Psychology Real
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness — J. W. N. Sullivan 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
I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous. — Yoko Ono 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 object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form. — Francois Delsarte Copy Share Image
Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine. — Magdalena Abakanowicz Copy Share Image
Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we receive in… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh) by assonance… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and effective way… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
“People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without question - as grace and beauty;… — Jean Dubuffet 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
