Artists, like all human beings, have multiple life purposes and various ways of describing their purposes. Have you ever tried to articulate your life purposes? It’s an excellent and even a life-changing exercise to try to state your life purposes and to then go one step further and explain to yourself how you’ll manifest those purposes day-in and day-out.
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And for your enjoyment and edification, here are some artists’ quotes on purpose:
“Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.”—Pierre Bonnard
“I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.”—Robert Brault
“The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.”—Keith Haring
“I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.”—Robert Henri
“My paintings are not intended to alter the history of twentieth-century art or change the political climate of our times. I’m simply a story-teller.”—Carolyn Hoyle
“Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.”—Wassily Kandinsky
“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.”—Ben Shahn
“I affirm my profound concern to achieve a purpose beyond vanity, ambition, or remembrance.”—Clyfford Still
“May your work be in keeping with your purpose and design.”—Leonardo da Vinci
“My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.”—Andrew Wyeth
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