Amusement Quote by Max Beckmann

“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of…

— Max Beckmann

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.

— Sol Saks

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

— Doris Humphrey

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

— Yoko Ono

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

— Matthew Collings

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

— Bell Hooks

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's…

— Patrick Stump

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

— Julia Cameron

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's…

— Leo Tolstoy

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

— Tony Bennett

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

— Jean Dubuffet