Art Quote by Maurice Blondel

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

— Katherine Sophie Dreier

The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into…

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

— Bell Hooks

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

— Jean Dubuffet

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is…

— Lawren Harris

The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and…

— W. Eugene Smith

The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective…

— Max Scheler

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

— Arthur Symons

The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad…

— Anonymous

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big…

— Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick