Quotes About Meaning

The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.

To work is to live without dying.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody.

If you have a dream. Believe it. Work on it. Have faith in your heart and feel it explode within you. Be sincere about your dream. Mean what you say and do what you dream.

When Daddy goes to work, there's a mouth to feed, a point to life and a reason to do things

You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.

It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go.

Don't worry about your stuff. Worry about making meaning instead.

I want to do work where I have something to say.

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said, and has a different meaning.

There's only one of me. With you using the why in the center of your work helps me.

I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed. Beyond the meaning (of a work of art), it is important to people. Without it, lives can be dull.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.