Argument Quote by Leo Tolstoy

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

— Constantin Brancusi

“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Everything cannot…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring…

— Aristotle

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.

— Pablo Picasso

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

— Pablo Picasso

The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in…

— Marshall McLuhan

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my…

— Kiki Smith

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world,

— Dana Gioia

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

— Joseph Beuys

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

— Jane Smiley

Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law…

— Herbert Marcuse

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

— Christian Lacroix