Creative Meaning Quotes

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

My own belief is that rather than getting involved in trying to change the reality of social-political things, creators can be involved in and express in different ways and be meaningful in different ways, so for me, it's important to leave messages to people of the future and to be engaged with the people now.

For me, one of the things art has to examine is how to live your life, and unless it's doing that, it doesn't work for me.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can.

I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?

I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

To be great, art has to point somewhere.

What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?

To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.