Art Quote by Joseph Beuys

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

— Andrew Stanton

The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

— Sol LeWitt

(There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their communities,...art that…

— Meredith Monk

Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by…

— Paul Rand

Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to glorify, to…

— Carlos Bulosan

An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part…

— Jan Peacock

I'm trying to find ways to transform parts of the art world into something more productive or more satisfying.

— Hito Steyerl

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

— Laura Riding

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have…

— Eugenio Montale

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and…

— Robert Hughes

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

— Harry Belafonte

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way…

— Susan Sontag