Art Quote by Romare Bearden

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

— Tom Robbins

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live…

— George Saunders

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings…

— Mos Def

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

— Cyril Connolly

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

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

The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of…

— Graham Collier

The job of the artist is to point at things.

— Miranda July

Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of…

— Paul Outerbridge