The first impulse towards painting, or toward art in general, stems from the need to communicate, the effort to fix one's own vision, to deal with appearances (which are alien and must be given names and meanings.) Without this, all work would be pointless and unjustified, like Art for Art's Sake. Gerhard Richter
The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg