A Quote by Sterling K. Brown

Any great art is meant to illuminate the human condition.

Sterling K. Brown

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Sterling K. Brown
American - Actor

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

Nicholas Meyer

The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition.

Sissy Spacek

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.

Langston Hughes

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.

William Trevor

It's really about the work - if you are doing it for the right reasons - really to illuminate the human condition.

Sissy Spacek

As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human condition. [Art] had humor in it. It had sex in it. But it also had sorrow running through it.

Eric Drooker

When I was in '97, I didn't know I was in a very major moment. But with the privilege of reflection, I do. And that's what artists should do - they should help illuminate and reflect the human condition.

Mara Brock Akil

Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of view, that can help illuminate what a consensus might be to important issues.

Mary Travers

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

Claire Messud

Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.

Rudolf Arnheim

I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition - needs to broaden its definition of the human condition. Because the human condition isn't immutable and doomed to remain uniform forever.

Charles Stross

I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

Greg Lake

The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love.

Frederick Lenz

In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.

David Foster Wallace

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

Richard Dawkins

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

Greg Lake

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