“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.” KnowsMenWantArtArtistArt IsUltimateFunction Author:Maurice Blondel
“There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience fullest glory...everything else you say, think, or do is attendant to that function. There is nothing else for your soul to do, and nothing else your soul wants to do.” ThinkingWantSoulPurposeGloryExperienceFunctionYour Soul Book:Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.” IfsKnowsWayWantMatterCertainSocialFunctionActresses Author:Isabelle Huppert
“The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.” WayWantHumansDifferentChallengesLinesHuman BeingsModernCenturyFunctionCleanArchitectureFrivolityModern ArchitectureClean Living Author:Jamie Lee Curtis
“I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification. And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.” WantDesireArtistProcessExpressionFunctionEdgesAcceptedInstantBreastsFeedingToiletsGratificationRepressedInstant Gratification Author:Bat for Lashes
“I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.” IfsThinkingWantFeelsArtFormArtistActorsViewsFunctionPaintSmellPoint Of ViewGenuinePainterFilmmakerDidacticCelluloid Author:Stanley Kubrick