Quotes About Meaning

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

The soul doesn't distinguish between good and bad as much as between what is nutritious and what isn't. Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

Without work all life goes rotten.

This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

The one thing I know through experience ... is that people don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.