Art Quote by Theodore Dalrymple

“Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search…

— Barbra Streisand

“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

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

— Amedeo Modigliani

“The purpose of art is to provide what life does not.”

— Tom Robbins

The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective…

— Max Scheler

“For me, art is the desire to preserve the intangible feeling of such a moment, hidden in all the littlest details, and then to…

— Rachel Hartman

“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”

— Keith Haring

“I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known…

— David Bayles

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as…

— George Santayana

“Genuine art . . . does not have as its object a mere transitory game. Its serious purpose is not merely to translate the…

— Friedrich Schiller

It is when we create things for God's sake that our work most clearly promotes His glory, rather than threatening to compete with it.…

— Philip Graham Ryken