Quotes About Meaning

I'd prefer to invite the artists simply to work and have fun with Guatemalan artists. To share missions of life. Maybe that is more important than seeing an exhibition.

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

The work that I do, I am grateful to do and honored and privileged to do, but I do it for my family and, if you don't have a family, then what does it mean?

A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.

Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don't require you just to take your shirt off.

The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.

I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.

How can someone say they're successful if they're not happy doing their work?

In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and where it raises more questions than answers.

Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first.

The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I do), I'd be a good Thatcherite.

The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.

I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.

I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.

We live not to ourselves, our work is life.

To put one brick upon another, Add a third, and then a fourth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What you do has any worth.