Art Quote by Will Durant

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

— Richard Wagner

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.

— Sol Saks

Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

— D.T. Suzuki

Art is made in hindsight.

— Virgil Abloh

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

— Steve Jobs

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they…

— Jean Dubuffet

Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

— Yoko Ono

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

— Jean Dubuffet

I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going…

— Eric Drooker

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens…

— Jules Feiffer