Conceptual Meaning Quotes

The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.

In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.

All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.

A country, a style or an epoch are interesting only for the idea behind them.

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.