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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 most important function of art and science is toAwaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive. — Albert Einstein
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
Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
— Marya Mannes
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
What society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.
— Elizabeth Janeway
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
When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
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
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 acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
— Susan Neiman
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
— Joseph Campbell
I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
— Bernard Berenson
The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.
— Roman Jakobson
All true definitions of art are circular, and all untrue definitions of art ascribe to it a specific function. A
— Julian Barnes
(Art is) a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.
— Robert Rauschenberg
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it's to imagine what is possible.
— Bell Hooks
The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
— Amedeo Modigliani
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— Tacita Dean
It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.
— Giannina Braschi
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
— Constantin Brancusi
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
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 me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.
— Dave Holland
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
— Charles Baudelaire
