Art Quote by Max Weber

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

— Max Weber

“The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic…

— Luther E. Vann

“Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in…

— John Green

We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective…

— Peter London

We live in a world of breathtaking material plenty. That has freed hundreds of millions of people from day-to-day struggles and liberated us to…

— Anonymous

The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

— Alex Grey

We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire…

— Walter Gropius

Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are with God…

— Ken Wilber

Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.

— John O'Donohue

“Wherever one looks in the realms of creative endeavor, one finds the greatest architecture, music, art, sculpture, drama, ritual placed in the service of…

— Gordon B. McKeeman

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad

“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned…

— H.P. Lovecraft