Quotes About Meaning

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

Work for your own soul's sake.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are

Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?

A lifetime's work, to try and say one thing that's true.

Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.

You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work which was that idea of an art work, and its formal components weren't important.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.