Quotes About Meaning

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

Buying art is not understanding art.

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained.

What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center.

We're not choosing the art, the art is choosing us. The pieces are choosing the walls where they hang.

Art is not about something, Art is something

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.