The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.
I didn't aim at anything except good music.
My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.
My aim is just to make good music every single time.
Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.
The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.
The aim of art is a constant, and a continuous job to reveal visually the attitude of our mentality. And the less we disturb the influence of our mentality the more I believe we come close to the truth.
The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world.
With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.
Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.
Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.
Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain
On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand, the emotions are said to be the subject matter which musical works are intended to illustrate. Both propositions are alike in this, that one is as false as the other.
The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.
My goal was to bring good music back.
It's not my aim to be this, like, 'savior for females.' I just want to make good music.
It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.
People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.
The aim of art is to create space.
