Top 1200 Meaning Of Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.

Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries. Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to require recording on a daily basis. It was not for the most part a God-is-leading-me-on-a-wondrous-journey kind of meaning, but more an I've-gotta-be-me-but-nobody-cares sentimentalism that passed for meaning, and they usually stopped keeping a diary by the time they hit thirty, because by then they didn't want to ponder the meaning of life anymore because it scared the crap out of them.

For many years, questions about the meaning of life were dismissed as senseless. We were told that life, not being a word or sentence or anything language-like, can't intelligibly be said to have meaning. An encouraging development in the last couple of decades is a return by philosophers to addressing - as nearly all people do at some time or another - the question of life's meaning.

The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her own satisfying meaning. The story is truly finished—and meaning is made—not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters the story and fills that little ambiguous space, completing the circuit, letting the power flow through.

Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.

Art removes boundaries and makes the world brighter. It is the common language for people all over the world. But politics are the opposite completely. Politicians, their very meaning is based on the lines they draw.

In being meaning, you naturally find meaning in everything.

"I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning," said the Master.

What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed.

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.

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.

After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through the history of art but we also went through the art of my contemporaries.

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.

Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

There is not built-in meaning to anything, we are free to add any meaning we choose to give it.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

I'm just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City, Kansas. And I always thought that acting was art, writing was art, music was art, painting was art, and I've tried to keep that cultural vibe to my life.

Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers as well an inspiration to those searching for a life of curiosity and meaning.

There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

Becoming mature is not important for art. Technical perfection is not relevant to art. Precision in art is only achieved by total duty of loyalty. Love, lusciousness, birth and fertility are precise tools of art, like laws.

Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.

The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it becomes mere icing on the cake.

Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it that says, "Come to Union Square, For Anti-War Meeting Friday." I've been operating that way ever since - that art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself. In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused.

Great companies make meaning. A company has a name, but its people give it meaning.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals.

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??

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

The sticker has no meaning, but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning.

What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning?

What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.

The meaning of freedom is in the U.S. Constitution. Republicans want to live by the document's original meaning.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.