Art Quote by Magdalena Abakanowicz

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

— Jean Dubuffet

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

— Yoko Ono

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

— Bell Hooks

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Some do design in order to try to solve others' problems, while others make art in order to give others his problems.

— Maurizio Cattelan

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

— Henry James

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

— Clement Greenberg

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

— Pablo Picasso

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

— John Maeda

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

— Anonymous

Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of…

— Ali Smith

For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.

— Michiko Kakutani