Quotes About Meaning

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

If I'm looking at life without a spiritual perspective, it's a lot more painful, a lot more confusing, and there's so much that I don't understand.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.

I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them.

I gave up on the idea of making art a long time ago, because I wanted to know how to make paintings; but once I came to know that, reconsidering the question of what art is returned as a critical issue.

What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.

While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in the fact that Israel has prospered while the Palestinians have festered.

I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.

It never came into question, taking the name away or changing it. Panic! has always symbolised some form of excitement that I couldn't get elsewhere.

People might say paper is dead or dying, but actually, it's not at all. It's just more rarified. The choice to send paper has more meaning because of the fact that you don't have to.

Fashion is not enough anymore. It's not just about what you wear. I mean, I don't know how many women can afford to take the time to come to Paris for three fittings.

When Cameron said to me 'you're a dinosaur,' several people in Parliament said to me 'you're trendin', Dennis, you're trendin' - and I didn't know what it meant. I know now what it is.

My use of language is part and parcel of my message.

I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.