Quotes About Meaning

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?

I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that's not true.

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.

Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!

Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.