Quotes About Meaning

I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!"

When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

grievance does not make for great art.

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

One goal of my art is to help people remember why they are here now.

Some poems are art because of their passion.

My art was not an answer - it was a question.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.

Art is not disposable.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

So that's what art is, for the artist," said Crake. "An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

Art is so subjective--it means something different to every person. The important thing for it to do is to touch on the senses and emotions.

I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.

Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose.

Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.

Im not trying to do conceptual art.

Art is most effective when concealed.

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.