Quotes About Meaning

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

Without emotional content we make pictures; with it, we create art.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

It has to go to the level of emotional connection, where you feel without it you're lost.

I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

An emotional story is an emotional story no matter how big or small it is.

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's emotional.

People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

I am willing to let go. I release others to experience whatever is meaningful to them, and I am free to create that which is meaningful to me.

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.