Modest Mussorgsky Quotes

Art is not meant to change the world.

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

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

I believe that art is a tool and that, like all tools, it has functions. I also think it is important to know what the tool is for so that we can better know how and when to use it.

The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability they confer.

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

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

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

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

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

Art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to forget the confusion that persists about what it's really for.

The job of any artiste is to open the eyes of the public to their surroundings and make them aware of it.

Art is what defines us, what makes us human.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.

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

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.

Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.