Quote by W. Edward Brown

The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life.

The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life.

Summary

The quote suggests that the primary purpose of an artist is to uphold and celebrate the essence of life. Through their creations, artists strive to validate and exalt the beauty, vitality, and significance of existence. Whether it is through paintings, sculptures, music, literature, or any other form of artistic expression, artists aim to capture the essence of life and convey it to others. Their role is to inspire and uplift, reminding individuals of the value and magnificence found in the world around them. Ultimately, artists contribute to the enrichment and celebration of life.

Topics

By W. Edward Brown

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at wh

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries.

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three mon

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of grace

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

Carol Ann Duffy

It's natural. Nature is dark and light, birth and death. Eve

It's natural. Nature is dark and light, birth and death. Everything and its opposite. And in nature there are predators and prey. The hunters and the hunted. The heartbreakers and the heartbroken. The beautiful thing is that Nature lets us choose which we want to be, most people never make the choice though because they don't even know they have it.

Lynn Weingarten

Life Nature Beauty Love

For years I have been going to the South of France to cool o

For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile,

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

William Shakespeare

It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and wha

It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man does with that moment will be more important than the events of the previous millenium.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.