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Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.
— Mas Oyama
The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.
— Laura Miller
We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.
— Edvard Munch
Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.
— Richard Matturro
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
— Twyla Tharp
Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning
— Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
— Miguel De Unamuno
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
Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness ... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object.
— D.H. Lawrence
Wanting to become stronger than everybody else has no meaning.
— Christian Tissier
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
— Jacques Barzun
Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh — Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness.
— Sandra Bowden
We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.
— Jean Genet
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
If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.
— Pablo Picasso
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
— Marc Chagall
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
By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.
— Scott McCloud
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
— Albert Camus
The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event.
— Aaron Siskind
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.
— Camille Paglia
There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The purpose of activism and art, or at least of mine, is to make a world in which people are producers of meaning, not consumers, and
— Rebecca Solnit
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
Thou art but a feeble flower in the garden of the universe, yet thou hath a purpose much greater than thyself.
— Raneem Kayyali
The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.
— Aristotle.
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
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
A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
— Paul Valery
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 is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.
— Frederick Sommer
