Marilyn Manson Quotes

Art is meant to disturb.

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

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

I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

Art expresses man.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

Art is not only about angst.

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

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.

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.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

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

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

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

As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

Art, I've always believed, is more real than life.

Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.

Art is not meant to change the world.

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.