Quotes About Meaning

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.

In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.