Quotes About Meaning

God is more interested in the workman than in the work.

Work to make a living; serve to make a life.

One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

You can call us rednecks if you want. We're not offended, 'cause we know what we're all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

We all want to have a rich and meaningful work life and a fulfilling life beyond work.

Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.

When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how much we are willing to work for it. We die when we stop living.