Quotes About Meaning

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

It's clever but is it art?

All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?

If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too.

When an image depends on the next for a complete meaning, it moves the story and audience along without choking them with pathos

If you don't understand it, it's art.

The art is not, to tell. The art is, not to tell.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event.

Art is a picture of the spirit.

It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

The Baron told her that only art meant anything.

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.

If you judge art by its cover, you efface the very essence of it

It's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it's also true that a word is worth a thousand pictures.

If you judge art be its cover, you efface the very essence of it

I am bothered by poems I don't understand.

Communication is not using beautiful and complex words to impress, but its all about expressing our truest emotions using simple words!

Some art are meant to cut shortstretching them unnecessary makes it dull.

Earth without "art" is just "eh

Your desire to make art -- beautiful or meaningful or emotive art -- is integral to your sense of who you are.

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.

you cannot teach art—you cannot make a soul