Great art is an escape from the agony of why.
– Robert A Kearse
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- Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment. – James Rozoff
- All this time I thought you were reading to escape the world, but now I know, you didn’t read to escape it; you read to discover it. – Brittainy C Cherry
- The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from. – Anonymous
- if the count of monte cristo could escape the chateau d’if, william smithback could escape from river oaks – Douglas Preston
- To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into? – Anne Michaels
- You’re trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought. – Enid Blyton
- This is one of the great human mysteries: why do works of art about bad things such as loss and deprivation make us feel good? – Robert Pinsky
- The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. – Julia Cameron
- Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white? – Tony DSouza
- Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world. – Edith Hamilton
- She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the agony of a bereavement unguessed till this moment. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Basically there can be no categories such as ‘religious’ art and ‘secular’ art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore ‘religious. – Madeleine LEngle
- Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old. – Jasper Johns
- Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. – Joanna Russ
- You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art. – Seth Godin
- Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself. – Edward Hirsch
- I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It’s art if you see it as art. – Andy Warhol
- You know what? I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m gonna make art, arty art art! – Andy Biersack
- Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art’s sake: it exists for people’s sake. – Julian Barnes
- Don’t just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for ‘create art’ and see if it fits). – Richie Norton
- Art is magic, and art is powerful. Art saves lives- I really believe that. It gives us courage and compassion we might not have on our own. – Sarah Cross
- Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human. – Jonathan Smith
- By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound. – Angelus Silesius
- The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. – Robert Henri
- Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living. – Robert Charles Wilson
- A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw. – Robert Henri
- Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. – W Somerset Maugham
- We view art in order to escape our own skins, to get outside of the commotion inside our skulls. – Kilroy J Oldster
- We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art–we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones. – Anas Nin
- Anyone with great ambition, great vision, and great passion can be a great person. – Debasish Mridha
- A great purpose with great commitment can definitely create a great life with great value – Debasish Mridha
- You least obtain something great from the great thing you regard as least though such great thing can give you something great – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Great life, great deeds.Great deeds, great blessings. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all – Benjamin Franklin
- Think how the great think,do what the great do,live how the great live,and you will achieve what the great achieve. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Think like the great,speak like the great,act like the great,and you will become like the great. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Our Navy is great. Our navy is great. Our people are great… Great. – Trump
- A great storm is like a sunny day to a person of great faith. A gentle wind is like a great storm to a person of great fear. – Matshona Dhliwayo