Art Role Quotes

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question of what art is for. This is a question that has, quite unfairly, come to feel impatient, illegitimate, and a little impudent.

Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

How can art make a difference in the world?

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

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.

The job of the artist is to point at things.

Science is not just there for technology. It's part of what addressing who you are in the universe and understanding your place in the cosmos. Good art, good literature, good music - all of that is for that and science is a part of it.

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to forget the confusion that persists about what it's really for.

Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man's vanity to be loathsome.

Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

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.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.

For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.

Art does not exist for itself; it is but an avenue through and by which humanity expresses itself.

I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.