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The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.
— Jean Dubuffet
The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.
— Gertrude Stein
The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.
— Katherine Sophie Dreier
I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.
— Patti Smith
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts
— Albert C. Barnes
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
— D.H. Lawrence
The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.
— Maurice Blondel
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
— Aristotle.
All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.
— John Bayley
The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time.
— Tacita Dean
To translate knowledge and information into experience: that seems to be the function of literature and art.
— Joseph Campbell
The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
— Georges Braque
The function of art is to make people like life more than they do.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.
— Salman Rushdie
The first function of an art student is to observe, to study nature.
— Kimon Nicolaides
The most important function of art and science is to
Awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive. — Albert Einstein
Awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive. — Albert Einstein
Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.
— Darryl Anka
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
— Charles Baudelaire
The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.
— Ron Silliman
ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough - see point one.
— Douglas Adams
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
— E. M. Forster
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
— Constantin Brancusi
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
— George Stillman Hillard
The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
— Amedeo Modigliani
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it's to imagine what is possible.
— Bell Hooks
All true definitions of art are circular, and all untrue definitions of art ascribe to it a specific function. A
— Julian Barnes
The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.
— Roman Jakobson
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
— Joseph Campbell
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
— Susan Neiman
The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.
— Susanne Katherina Langer