Quotes About Meaning

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.

Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.

I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, "conceptual art," there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.

But of works of art little can be said.

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

Art needs to stand for something.

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

art, n. This word has no definition.

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films … like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.