Quotes on Purpose Of Art

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?

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.