Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

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.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

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

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes too boring. It becomes too lost in its own devices. But I just think that we started to lose, and even before that, it's not necessary.

Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

Art to be art must soothe.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

Film is an incredible way to express yourself and your vision, as is fashion, but you have to make sure [to] be confident and honest and true to yourself and say something that means something, because that is really the point of any art.

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres. But the thing is, I think art is more long-lasting. It stays in people, and it changes them.

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.

The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.

The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.