Quotes About Meaning

Design that moves others comes from issues that move you.

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.

Form is never more than an extension of content.

At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.

Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art.

Design always has a purpose.

... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.

aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.

Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.

Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal.

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.

What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.

One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing that desire leads to.

And our desire to knowEach other and desertEach other for newCenters of meaning so thatThe boundaries may reignAnd in doing so be undone.

To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways..." (The Rape Of The Swan)Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism.

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

I don't know how I ever lived before You are my life, my destiny Oh my darling, I love you so You mean everything to me

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.