Quotes About Purpose

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

I serve with my art and creativity. That makes me most happy.

Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose.

Teach the art of living well.

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

Art needs to stand for something.

I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

I am not here to teach martial arts, but to change people's lives!

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

Whether or not anyone could have done it is not what's important. What is important is whether or not anyone would have done it.

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.

I remember Art Blakey saying to me, "Just remember, we're blessed to do what we do."

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

To know how to live is my trade and my art.

Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.