Quotes About Meaning

You don't want to just do a joke because it works - we can make a lot of jokes work - you want to do a joke because it will hopefully build into an argument.

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.

If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

You can't make people work harder. People have to want to work hard and make a difference. Purpose matters.

I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

The real harvest of life is the outworking of the internal. If there's nothing in there, there's nothing to work out.

I grew up in a family that believed love was at work in the world. I guess that's a religious idea, though of course it needn't be.

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

There's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life.

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.

For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.