Quotes About Meaning

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.

It seems to me that art has lost its connection to spirit.

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to get us to see what is important in our lives.

It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I've devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

Art has to address eternal issues.

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

I don't see art as entertainment.

"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.