Quotes About Meaning

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

My work is incredibly important to me personally. It brings me joy and it brings me life and it brings me meaning. It doesn't necessarily have to be important to the people who read it.

I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

Think about these things and see if they make sense to you. You will find that work will no longer be a four-letter word. It will be a three-letter word: fun.

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.

Content is the meaningful substance of the work.

I've been very lucky to work with many amazing animators and directors who can interpret and extend the music I make. When it's done well, it can create extra meaning and new context for the song.

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work.

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.

Is not every life, every work fine?

In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature.

For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.

I believe if everyone fulfilled their deepest life purpose, the world would work perfectly.

Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.

Any work of art dignifies life.

If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow...we become more valuable human beings.

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.