Quotes About Meaning

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning.

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

It is work which gives flavor to life.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore.

You know when I think about what I'm doing - what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

It was reported that I said I wouldn't, shouldn't have gone to New York. No. I said I shouldn't have left Steve Nash. It's a little bit different on the meaning.

I knew what the story behind 'Dreams' was. It was about Stevie Knicks' relationship. But when I sing it, it's about sharing some sage advice with somebody.

I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.

There's a lot of art that's about loss and sadness, but I would love it if hopefulness were more of a cliche. That's the work that always sticks with me and emboldens me in life.

I have often spoken about the importance of intentionality in philanthropy: that it has to stir the soul. This is true whether you are feeding the homeless, mentoring a child or working on climate change.

For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.

I can stitch a song together in about an hour anytime you want, but it won't have the depth.

If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a filmmaker that makes films that have a point, I'm stoked.

We considered all sorts of names - everything from Tarantula Bomb to Superego to Section 8. Some of them were already taken, and some of them were kind of campy sounding. So we just decided to stick with Stone Sour. After all, what's in a name?

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

Since my first encounter with Kafka's writing, I've been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in the way of his achieving a large reputation: his allegory.

And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.