“The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.” PersonsArtEnoughPurposeSocialTeachPaintingPhilosophicalArtisticFormulasTranslate Author:Theophile Gautier
“Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil. For those whom my love can not immune from death, are dedicated these paintings, in the hope they may express in drawing the reality of a resonant mind.” MenMindMayRealityEarthPurposeCertainFoundPaintingSurvivalTestsInstinctDrawingDedicatedCan NotToilImmuneCursed Author:Ala Bashir
“Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.” WayBelieveMeanDoeFilmUsedPurposePaintingFunctionSoundtracks Author:Peter Doig
“The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form -- to make it true and real to the theme, not to life.” GivingArtRealRealityFormPurposeArtistSongPaintingDeterminationTalesConfusedThemeImaginative Book:The Sherwood Anderson reader Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader
“Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist. A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation.” IfsMindDoePurposePiecesAchievePaintingExerciseElementsCrossesAbstractThreadUniformsFabricRepresentationLackingIncompleteComplementary Author:Juan Gris
“The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.” IdeasInspirationActionPurposeEnvironmentPaintingResponseInterpretation Author:Gerald Brommer
“Seurat and Signac mixed paintings with the dry and abstract laws of science. This approach, in my opinion, usually strays from the purpose of art in general. Because it means that one cannot expect from an artifact, that is created with mathematical laws, to establish an improbable and irrational relationship between the work and the viewer.” MeanArtLawPurposeOpinionPaintingApproachMathematicalAbstractDryIrrationalViewersImprobableArtifactsPurpose Of Art Author:Guity Novin
“Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.” MadeBookSelfHandsPurposeMy OwnColorPaintingConcernedThirdsOriginalsInward Book:The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters Source: The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters
“Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.” ShouldMeanLongArtEndsSpiritPurposeBeautyMusicPaintingDramaArt IsRealismIdealismAttainmentInner LifeSubservient Author:Julia Marlowe
“It's good when someone comes to a book or a movie and interacts with it. It's the difference between an illustration and a painting. An illustration serves a specific purpose, and a painting is something you can immerse yourself in.” BookPurposeDifferencesPaintingIllustration Author:Charlie Kaufman
“For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.” ArtImportantFeelingsPurposeImaginationEmotionPaintingShockAestheticOur Thoughts Author:Pierre Soulages
“It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then and I still don't have the temperament and don't care for drawing or painting or making art for any other purposes other my own.” ArtStillsCarePurposeArtistGoalMy OwnPaintingDon't CareDrawingPunkTemperament Author:Raymond Pettibon
“People should quit their jobs, move to Oklahoma, move in with 34 people, pay $100 a month in rent and start a band or start painting. That way you'll feel like you have a purpose if you lose your mind, and you'll have some fun on the way.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsShouldMindJobsMovingPurposeFunLosesPayPaintingLike YouMonthsBandQuittingOklahoma Author:Josh Jones
“I think it [ Difficult People] is for people who don't feel that they have been properly represented on TV. I think it's painting a very accurate if slightly exaggerated for comedic purposes view of the LGBT world in a way that we have never, ever seen in any television show.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayFeelsHas BeensShowsPurposeDifficultViewsTelevisionPaintingTvsLgbtAccurateExaggeratedTelevision ShowsComedic Author:Billy Eichner