Quotes About Meaning

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

We'll always have art, darling.

Art's supposed to build logic structures.

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

All our knowledge is symbolic.

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does.