Quotes About Meaning

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.

Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.

As someone who has been asked to ask David Lynch what his movies mean for 25 years, I'm very careful about asking artists what their art means.

Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes.

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.

Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.

Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.

I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.

I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

Creative expression is not just a means of getting attention, although some have approached art that way. Think of art as a way of connecting, of sharing your insights with others.