Art Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is…

— Anonymous

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

— Herbert Read

We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any…

— Antony Gormley

Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of…

— Paul Outerbridge

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

— Bell Hooks

Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for…

— Michael Gungor

Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.

— Kehinde Wiley

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's…

— Leo Tolstoy

I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction…

— William Morris

It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what happens to us as a consequence of encountering…

— Peter London

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“Why do we sacrifice so much energy to our art? Not in order to teach others but to learn with them what our existence,…

— Jerzy Grotowski