Quotes About Meaning

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

Enjoying the dream is more important than interpreting it. Therefore, don't work so hard that it stops being pleasant and exciting.

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

If one's work environment isn't able to provide individuals with meaning, people will seek out one that does.

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.