purpose of art Quotes

In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos - the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?

I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. And I feel I was chosen as an instrument to just give music and love and harmony to the world. To children of all ages, and adults and teenagers.... I love people of all races from my heart, with true affection.

What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it shouldn’t. I mean, it can occasionally, if it wants to; but really, how many penetrating insights to human nature do you need in one lifetime? Two? Three? Once you’ve realised that no one else has a clue what they’re doing, either, and that love can be totally pointless, any further insights into human nature just start getting depressing really.

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

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

I believe that art is a tool and that, like all tools, it has functions. I also think it is important to know what the tool is for so that we can better know how and when to use it.

You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

I make film to make time pass.

I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?

We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.

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

What we also need to have a discussion on the philosophy of art: so we must ask what is it that we want in the first place? Is it just about saying and doing whatever you want, or is it about something more? We should let the artist be free, but we must also question how exactly he deals with freedom. Is it arts for elevation or arts for destruction? Is there dignity in the process?

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.