Quotes About Meaning

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.

Art is the refreshing source of existence.

Me: "All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel.

For me, art that's alive and urgent is about what it is to be a human being.

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

Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out while Romantic grows from outside in.

I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

It's not what you see that is art art is the gap.

Art for art's sake.

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.

In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.

I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.

I'm still here. I have to go on. I have to give something back, to make my time here worth something. If not, the time I've been given here would have been totally wasted. And I don't think we have a right to do that.

seemed silly to Faith. And offensive

Kezia's fascination with the Peace Corps had been "trivia," as had her much-

Life is too long to do something you don't enjoy doing.