Quotes about Meaning
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
- CS Lewis
The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
- Pope John Paul II
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.
- Marc Chagall
I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
- Samuel Johnson
A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Avant-garde is French for bullshit
- John Lennon
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
- Pablo Picasso
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
- Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
- Aristotle
...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
- Henri Matisse
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.
- Mahatma Gandhi