Art Quote by Max Eastman Download Open image “The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.” — Max Eastman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Cherish Consciousness Defining Function Philosophy of Mind
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The impact of a conscious artist is necessary, and it ripples through the world. — Common Copy Share Image
The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“Through creativity, we are seamlessly connected and sustained as we pull back the veil, revealing beneath our differences and distinctive characteristics, human expression and… — Brian Bowers Copy Share Image
An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person. — Ann Mortifee Copy Share Image
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would… — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any nation but… — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh… — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
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