Quotes About Meaning

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't discuss concrete issues.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.

Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

The work is not simply about an occupation .. but why you are here.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Every good work should have at least ten meanings.

I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present

It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.

My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.

I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

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

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.