Quotes About Meaning

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

The idea is more important than the object.

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

There is no art without a poetic aim.

Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.