Quotes About Significance

The idea is more important than the object.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

I am a result of what has happened on this planet - how could I find the art to say that? I can't, and yet, I am drawn to it because of the enormity of it. That seems really important.

Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.

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

Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering, world-historical significance.

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.

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

It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.