Quotes About Meaning

The divine art is the story.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

Only art means anything.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART.

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

If it has a use it isn't art.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

Art is my life and my life is art.

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

That art is best which suggests most.

All art is someone trying to tell you something.

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.