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During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art. -- Sol LeWitt
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. -- Jackson Pollock
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. -- Zhang Yimou
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art. -- Jacques Barzun
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art. -- Twyla Tharp
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. -- Marc Chagall
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. -- George H. Mead
Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell. -- Itay Talgam
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. -- Anais Nin
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings. -- Anne Stevenson
I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles. -- ASAP Ferg
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion. -- Alexander Calder
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. -- Pope Paul VI
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. -- Walter Pater
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins. -- Antoni Tapies
I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet. -- Robert Redford
There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean. -- Jane Campion
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word. -- Eric Gill
Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning. -- Frederick Sommer
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. -- T. S. Eliot
A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself. -- Ross Bleckner
Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life. -- Antoni Tapies
If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you. -- Pablo Picasso
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. -- Maxwell Perkins
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. -- Camille Paglia
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. -- Charles de Lint
Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life. -- Karen Armstrong
My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning. -- Karen Armstrong
Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning -- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object. -- D. H. Lawrence
The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects. -- Aristotle
To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art. -- Eleonora Duse
To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art. -- Eleonora Duse
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... -- Leo Tolstoy
In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things. -- Constantin Brancusi
My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life. -- Edvard Munch
Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning. -- Carmelo Anthony
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers. -- Leonard Bernstein
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world. -- Henri Langlois
All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings. -- David Bowie
Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them?? -- Peter Lindbergh
Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning. -- Chath Piersath
Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth. -- Jane Urquhart
Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school. -- Andy Paula
Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes. -- Erik Parker
In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives. -- Edvard Munch
It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless. -- Tim Winton
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. -- Pablo Picasso
The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art. -- John Cowper Powys
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. -- George Orwell
Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning. -- Robert Hughes
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways. -- Barbara Kruger
I view the art scene as an industry which is slowly developing. These days, technology has mad the world smaller. Meaning that information is a website away. -- St. Lucia
The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age. -- Anton Ehrenzweig
Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning ... -- Iris Murdoch
Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning. -- Sarah
Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline. -- Eli Broad
There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning. -- Andy Milonakis
Artâ??the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory. -- Lawrence Durrell
No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and decorative objects. The Aivilik say simply, "A man should do all things properly." -- Edmund Snow Carpenter

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