Quotes About Meaning

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

Shouldn't "it works like a charm" be said about things that don't work?

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form.

I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.

I always say the work is not a celebration as such, because that's sometimes just as weird and excluding and perverse.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

The way to tell if your job is done: if you're alive, you've got a job.

The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?

Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.

The job is not the work.

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.

My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.

God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

My work means everything to me.