Quotes About Purpose

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.

I just do art because I'm ugly and there's nothing else for me to do.

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

There is no art without a poetic aim.

I make records so I can buy art.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.