Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.

—Barbra Streisand

About Barbra Streisand

Portrait of Barbra Streisand

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand ( STRY-sand; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, author, and filmmaker. Over a career spanning more than six decades, she has achieved success across multiple fields of entertainment, and has earned all four of the major performing art awards—Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and...

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A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

—Barbra Streisand

More quotations tagged with “art”

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

—Aristophanes

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

—Alfred North Whitehead

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

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