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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. -- Pablo Picasso
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. -- Norman Mailer
And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have. -- Jerzy Kosinski
The purpose of art is mystery. -- Rene Magritte
The purpose of art is to bring people into presence. -- Jim Carrey
The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder. -- Glenn Gould
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers. -- James A. Baldwin
The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity. -- Alonzo King
The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects. -- Aristotle
The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own. -- Brassai
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
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 its own. -- Henry Green
The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions. -- Edward de Bono
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. -- Glenn Gould
Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them? -- Bob Dylan
The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective realities within it which rule and convention have hitherto concealed. -- Max Scheler
The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society. -- Dana Gioia
There are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more. We somehow expect cinema to provide us with meaning, to console us. But that's not the purpose of art. -- Peter Greenaway
The purpose of art is delectation. -- Nicolas Poussin
The purpose of art is to stop time. -- Bob Dylan
The purpose of art is the fight for freedom, -- Ai Weiwei
The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious. -- Richard Wagner
The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it. -- Josef Albers
The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit. -- Pope John Paul II
The purpose of art is to console and amuseâ??myself, and, I hope, others. -- Ludwig Bemelmans
The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible. -- Penn Jillette
Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want. -- Nicholas Meyer
One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity. -- William C. Brown
Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well. -- eL Seed
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 already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that. -- Michael Moore
The purpose of Art Education is to teach you how to draw. -- Igor Babailov
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 something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature. -- Sean Lennon
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 of feelings, which takes place by means of art. Lower feelings-less kind and less needed for the good of humanity-are forced out and replaced by kinder feelings which better serve us individually and collectively. This is the purpose of art. -- Leo Tolstoy
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. -- Mark Rothko
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France
Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen. -- Jerry Saltz
I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month. I want them to serve another purpose. -- Sandra Bullock
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. -- Franz Grillparzer
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation. -- Richard Holloway
I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one. -- Donald Barthelme
The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds. -- Tristram Stuart
Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity. -- Ai Weiwei
I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something. -- Eddie Vedder
I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art. -- Iris Apfel
Art is purposiveness without purpose. -- Immanuel Kant
The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment! -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm. -- Pablo Picasso
Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you. -- Mason Cooley
Art without color would lose much of its purpose. -- Andrew Loomis
Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake. -- Paula Scher
Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it. -- Julian Casablancas
Art is an articulator of the soul's uncensored purpose and deepest will. -- Shaun McNiff
The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience. -- Unarine Ramaru
Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose. -- Gunter Brus
for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated. -- Ellen Glasgow
The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose -- Joshua Reynolds
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose. -- W. Somerset Maugham
If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions. -- Catherine Drinker Bowen
Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose. -- Paul G
Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose. -- Margaret Cho
The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties. -- Henry Flynt
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens. -- John Cage
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. -- Alan Moore
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The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become. -- Alex Grey
Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) -- Benjamin Constant
Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now. -- Dorothea Tanning
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So, I'm not on a diet. I'm on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness. -- Lysa TerKeurst
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France
In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure. -- George Henry Lewes
Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose. -- Ben Hunt
To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small. -- Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them. -- Ambrose Bierce
Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit. -- Mark McMorris
... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve. -- Susan Sontag
The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value. -- W. Eugene Smith
Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it. -- Roy Lichtenstein
I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man. -- Fidel Castro
Design always has a purpose, art has no purpose. That's really the difference between them. Do I think one is better than the other? Absolutely not. I think they both fulfill functions. -- Paula Scher

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