Art Quote by Tom Robbins Download Open image ““The function of the artist,' the Navajo answered, 'is to provide what life does not.”” — Tom Robbins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Artist Navajo Function Artist Life Navajo Navajo Answered Provide Life
“Among the languages of American Indians there is no word for ‘art,’ because for Indians everything is art.” — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“One of the many facets of Navajo culture that appeals to me is the lack of value attached to vengeance. This ‘eye for an… — Anne Hillerman Copy Share Image
“The function of art is to make people like life more than they do.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For me that… — Chester Nez Copy Share Image
What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and… — Medardo Rosso Copy Share Image
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
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The glue that holds the natural world together appears to be a harmonious balance of opposites: day and night, light and dark, winter and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its… — Tom Robbins 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… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“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… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“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
