In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
The idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it.
Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
With comedy I can search for the profound.
The most profound things are inexpressible.
There are very few profound sayings in the world.
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Mystery is not profoundness.
Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.