Art Quote by Nicholas Meyer

“...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...”

— John Geddes A Familiar Rain

“Tolstoy said that “each unhappy family is unhappy in a way of its own—”

— Christina Stead

“You’re trying to help them… that’s a good thing. But you can’t always count on seeing their gratitude,” he said wanting to comfort her…

— Paul Alkazraji

“The purpose of art is to elevate the spirit or to pay a surgeon’s bill. Or both. It can help a person remember or…

— Barbara Kingsolver

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when…

— Jerzy Kosinski

In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in the evolution…

— Leo Tolstoy

The purpose of art is to stop time.

— Bob Dylan

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

— Glenn Gould

I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.

— David Hare

When you're an artist, you're working, literally, for the sole purpose of art, and when people discredit you, it's probably the most disrespectful thing…

— Kali Uchis

“My theory is that the purpose of art is to transmit universal truths of a sort, but of a particular sort, that in art,…

— Walker Percy

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

— Josef Albers

I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think…

— Sean Lennon

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of…

— Henry Green

The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's…

— Michael Moore