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My aim is to show the visible as possibility in a state of perpetual becoming. (Yaacov Agam)
The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world. (Josef Albers)
Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. With the majority the bark of thought is allowed to 'drift' upon the ocean of life. (James Allen)
The object of art is to give life a shape. (Jean Anouilh)
As an artist my mission in relation to the universe is to realize and actualize the mirror of the human psyche. (Raul D. Arellano)
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. (Aristotle)
The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose. (Rudolf Arnheim)
There has probably never been an artist that only painted for his or her eyes alone. (Moncy Barbour)
Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be. (Dr. Michael Beckwith)
Art has no other purpose than to brush aside... the conventional and accepted generalities, in short everything that veils reality from us, in order to bring us face to face with reality itself. (Henri Bergson)
Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings. (Pierre Bonnard)
I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day. (Robert Brault)
Allow yourself the peace of purpose and the knowledge that to make another attempt with the brush is a noble thing. If you accept the discipline of the truest principles of art, then yours is the reward of an unbroken line of tradition. (Charles Philip Brooks)
If art takes up much of the artist's time, then it makes sense that she/he be "lost" in the euphoria of creating. Isn't that one of our ultimate purposes in life? (Harley Brown)
Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. (John Cage)
The object of art is to crystalize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form. (Delsarte)
The secret of success is constancy to purpose. (Benjamin Disraeli)
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous. (Dr. Wayne Dyer)
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 defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. (Max Eastman)
It is important to have something to do that has no purpose. (Sister Agatha Fitzgerald)
The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable. (Lucian Freud)
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. (Erich Fromm)
Find purpose, the means will follow. (Mahatma Gandhi)
The aim behind critical art is to improve life, by pointing out that which is in need of repair or renovation. By the same criteria, landscape and other "beautiful" art is legitimate, as it also comes to improve the world... by elevating the spirits of those who behold it. (Ron Gang)
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The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough. (Theophile Gautier)
We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff. (Robert Genn)
The purpose of art is the gradual lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. (Glen Gould)
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world – to pronounce it – and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. (Morris Graves)
You won't form the habit... unless right at the start you link it with a definite purpose that can be accomplished by keeping it. (Albert Gray)
An artist's job is to say the most with the least. (Andrew Hamilton)
The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... (Keith Haring)
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. (Kenneth Hildebrand)
Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation. (Napoleon Hill)
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. (Hans Hofmann)
My paintings are not intended to alter the history of twentieth-century art or change the political climate of our times. I'm simply a story-teller. (Carolyn Hoyle)
The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. (Carl Jung)
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose within him. (Carl Jung)
Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim. (Wassily Kandinsky)
In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art. (Wassily Kandinsky)
It's the role of the artist to pursue content. (Anish Kapoor)
We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness. (Anish Kapoor)
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. (Helen Keller)
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. (John F. Kennedy)
What is the spiritual purpose of the arts? It is to learn structure. Once an artist creates a true structure, then divine love can pour into it and make it a living thing of beauty. (Harold Klemp)
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. (Barbara Kruger)
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with. (David Lee)
Having chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts. (Abraham Lincoln)
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for. (Norman Mailer)
The painter's function, generally speaking, is to explore and demonstrate in his work the interdependency of forms. (Robert McBryde)
Art is an articulator of the soul's uncensored purpose and deepest will. (Shaun McNiff)
The purpose of life is to remember. (Henry Miller)
The artist has a special task: that of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity. (Lewis Mumford)
It's so hard to retain what your purpose is – or to even realize what it is. (Sinead O'Connor)
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. (Patanjali)
The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit. (Pope John Paul II)
I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions. (Pablo Picasso)
The purpose of art is delectation. (Nicolas Poussin)
Too often we pat the canvas without purpose while we think about what to do next. It is much better to think first and then paint with purpose. (Chuck Rawle)
The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact. (Herbert Read)
The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds. (Sir Joshua Reynolds)
It is the function of the artist to call attention to what life does not. (Tom Robbins)
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make a difference that you lived at all. (Leo Rosten)
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)
It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder. (Ben Shahn)
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. (Mary Shelly)
You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down. (William Stafford)
The artist has still an important task in depicting a landscape and rendering it for us with his much more sensitive eye which can concentrate on essentials and give the atmosphere of a city much better than a mechanical camera could ever do. (Max Stern)
Just as the farmer provides sustenance for the body, the painter provides sustenance for the soul. (Arturo Tello)
It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about? (Henry David Thoreau)
I devoted myself simply to being a solitary person entrusted with a specific task. (Jacobo Timerman)
The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success. (Brian Tracy)
My job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. (Mark Twain)
Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes. (unknown)
The purpose of art is to open a door to other dimensions. (unknown)
We don't dance to get to the end of the dance; we don't sing to get to the end of the song. (unknown)
May your work be in keeping with your purpose and design. (Leonardo da Vinci)
When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional – a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful. (Bill Viola)
The task of an artist is to breathe an emotional charge onto the canvas so it may be perceived and experienced by the spectator. (Konstantin Voinov)
Winners are people with definite purpose in life. (Denis Waitley)
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art. (Oscar Wilde)
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. (Oscar Wilde)
Without intent all painting is meaningless. (Christopher Willard)
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. (Woodrow Wilson)
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content. (Andrew Wyeth)
One of art's important functions – the function that many would consider the most important – is to entertain and divert us, to make us laugh, give us comfort, lift our spirits. (Max Wyman)
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
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