Art Quote by Joseph Campbell

Making the inner meet the outer is the function of the artist.

— Joseph Campbell

“Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen…

— Flannery O'Connor

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

— Alain de Botton

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

— Jackson Pollock

“That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.”

— C.S. Lewis

It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior…

— Peter Ackroyd

The inner artist is not the voice of reason. The inner artist can have wild and impossible ideas... The inner artist is not the…

— Alex Grey

“The art lies in setting the inner life into the most violent motion with the smallest possible expenditure of outer life; for it is…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

— Romare Bearden

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live…

— George Saunders

The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera…

— Jackson Pollock

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

— Bruce Lee