Quotes About The Role Of Art

#1. The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

William, Saroyan

#2. The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.

Josef Albers

#3. The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

T. S. Eliot

#4. The role of art in society differs for every artist.

Maya Lin

#5. If I had the pen of Moliere, I could make him comic. That is the role of art, is it not? To make monsters comic, so we can bear them, and our own cheap griefs into grand tragedy, so that others will weep with us.

Judith Merkle Riley

#6. If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat.

Annie Dillard

#7. The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.

Robert Irwin

#8. Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.

Hugh Casson

#9. This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs.

Ronald J. Sider

#10. When you're in the role of the teacher, the teacher must take on the role of the student and learn from him or her.

Art Hochberg

#11. Both the art of intuition and the science of analytics have the role to play in making wise decisions.

Pearl Zhu

#12. It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.

Conrad Veidt

#13. I'm more interested in the idea of role-playing in general than the idea of role-playing in art. I like the childlike quality of making pretend or the optimistic idea of pretending something's happening when it's not.

Laurel Nakadate

#14. It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in shaping human understanding and artistic expression thereof within any given culture-regardless of the subject matter at hand.

John Walford

#15. It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.

Alla Osipenko

#16. The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Anton Chekhov

#17. I am a very, very strong advocate of the notion that we shouldn't equate the arts with other aspects of infrastructure. They have a unique role in any civilised society and that requires appropriate and targeted government support.

George Brandis

#18. People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

Mstislav Rostropovich

#19. If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.

Phil Crane

#20. [Editorial cartooning] is essentially a destructive art. We are not pontificators, or molders of thought - or at least we shouldn't try to be. Ours is more the role of the lowly gadfly: circle and stab, circle and stab. Roughly put, our credo should be, if it's big, hit it.

Bill Mauldin

#21. The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (including works of art). Photography is the reality; the real object is often experienced as a letdown.

Susan Sontag

#22. A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of - is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.

Edwin Booth

#23. If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.

W. H. Auden

#24. The art of British Columbia's native Indians played a big role in inspiring my creativity ... the simplicity of the images, the graciousness of the lines and curves, and the emotional impact of the bright simple primary colours.

Joe Average

#25. Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.

Saul Williams

#26. One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.

Art Alexakis

#27. The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people take what they see for the final image of it. But the most interesting thing about street art is to see it for real, to understand what it means and where it's displayed.

JR

#28. In true budo there is no enemy or opponent. True budo is to become one with the universe, not train to become powerful or to throw down some opponent. Rather we train in hopes of being of some use, however small our role may be, in the task of bringing peace to mankind around the world.

Morihei Ueshiba

#29. Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules.

Raymond Salvatore Harmon

#30. The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

David Rockefeller

#31. Emphasizing the body as art, these artists amplified the role of process over product and shifted from representation objects to presentational modes of action.

Kristine Stiles

#32. The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine.

Marty Rubin

#33. ...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society.

Miles J. Unger

#34. I feel like pop stars can't be rock stars anymore because they have to be role models, and it takes the fun out of it for us, because we just want to have fun with art.

Rihanna

#35. When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

Brenton Thwaites