Quotes About Meaningful Art

#1. It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

Philip Pearlstein

#2. Manipulating emotions is the most important function of meaningful art.

Ryan Quinn

#3. I've always wanted my lyrics to say something meaningful and, you know, you always want to tell a message with your art. So yes, as I continue to write music, I will write about things that are real and things that I feel aren't written about a lot.

Hayley Kiyoko

#4. [ ... ] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.

Woody Allen

#5. Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the category of poetry, the number of meaningful elements in it acquires the capacity to grow and the system of their combinations also becomes more complex.

Yuri Lotman

#6. I am in the zone, the perfect balance between manic and drunk, I am mellow, I'm cool, cool as cats. I've found the answer, the thing that takes the edge off, smoothes out the madness, sends me sailing, lifts me up and lets me fly.

Marya Hornbacher

#7. Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.

Sharon Salzberg

#8. The real story can never be told. It is untellable. The real (as real) is inaccessible, being gone in time. There is no point in glancing at the past, in summoning it up, in re-examining it, except on behalf of art - that is, the meaningful-real.
(The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952))

William, Saroyan

#9. It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is powerful and beautiful and meaningful, so that my work regenerates the people, certainly Indian people, and the earth and the sun. And in that way we all continue forever.

Joy Harjo

#10. When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

Elisabeth Rohm

#11. Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.

Sathya Sai Baba

#12. The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.

Henri De Lubac

#13. art is absolutely meaningless. It is, however, also deeply meaningful.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. Being DIY is awesome because you have total control, I never really wanted to get signed. I'm successful because I make art that's meaningful to me that resonates with people, and honestly that's all I could ever want.

MC Lars

#15. Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.
For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#16. Create quality art ... meaningful, passionate and high quality work! If it's not meaningful to you, how can you expect it to be meaningful to anyone else?

Cory Trepanier

#17. I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.

Philip K. Dick

#18. If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art..

Albert Einstein

#19. we will never become the men we are called to be unless we learn the art of friendship and intentionally cultivate deep, meaningful, rowdy relationships with other men.

Stephen Mansfield

#20. It doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.

Duane Hanson

#21. The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.

Charles Williams

#22. I am a prisoner of love.

Alex Flinn

#23. Do you not wonder about the mysteries of life?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. I wasn't sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

Virat Kohli

#25. I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

Doseone

#26. I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

Chaim Potok

#27. Retailers should not be filling their minds with all the things that are wrong, with how the economy is going, or with trying to get someplace in the business world. They should enjoy being in this moment and in this day and serving the people who come in.

Wayne Dyer

#28. I owe it all to words and art, the peace that came with a flicker of a pen silenced the suffering; eased the pain and life that was once filled with burden became sane again. It Became meaningful.
Art does matter, it made me, when the world changed me.

Nikki Rowe

#29. I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

John Baldessari

#30. Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.

Simon Cowell

#31. I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

Carrie Coon

#32. Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

Shirin Neshat

#33. Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C.

Greg Kinnear

#34. I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.

Nikki Rowe

#35. I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.

Don Roff

#36. How can art be sufficiently meaningful? If it is offered up merely before men, then it does not have a sufficient integration point.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#37. A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#38. There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication.

Max De Pree

#39. When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.

Michael Hastings

#40. In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the ability to think creatively that comes from a meaningful arts education.

Barack Obama

#41. Life is confusing. We're all just trying to get on with it, that's all.

Art Carney

#42. As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me ... / Beautifully .. on every side ... / As I walk .. I walk with beauty.

Mary Hunter Austin

#43. Just as a stool requires three legs to stand upright so the taekwondoist must cultivate basic skills, meaningful forms, and effective sparring in order to have both feet firmly planted in the art

Doug Cook