Georges Braque Quotes

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

The message of great art is to disturb.

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm not interested in just putting clothes in stores.

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

Movies should make people uncomfortable sometimes.

Sometimes art is just about getting a reaction, that's really the end-all be-all.

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

All my different kinds of artwork have been designed to inspire people to think. They may not always agree with me, but at least they will have some feelings and some passion about whatever it is.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.

I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.