Quotes About Meaning

You're saying that anything's art if people say it is? Even me?" "Exactly. It's perspective - not content.

The secret to creativity is not in the so-called higher cognitive processes but in the dreamlike reconfigurations of emotional meanings that take place unconsciously

I loved it so much I was sorry to finish it. I closed the book and shocked myself by thinking, This is better than life. I didn't mean or want to think this, but I'm afraid I did. Certainly this feeling about a book is the one that makes people want to write. I don't know why I feel more alive when I write, but I do.

but the story's interest lies in my struggle over semantics and the moral resonance of interpreting the meaning of a word.

We need to think of the self as a continuum, a steady story over time. The mind is always searching for similarities, associations, repetitions, because they create meaning.

Martin Buber believed that the foundation for human existence is relational. People can create between-zones of resonant meaning. In a letter to Ludwig Binswanger, the Swiss psychiatrist, he wrote, "Dialog in my sense implies the necessity of the unforeseen, and its basic element is surprise, the surprising mutuality." Isn't this what happens when I hear the words spoken to me in the room as alive, not dead. Isn't it always a surprise?

In the arts feeling is always meaning.

Unato? tim trenuta?nim uvidima u ne?iji život, platna i materijali na njima imali su neku apstraktnu odliku, krajnju prazninu koja je izražavala bizarnost same smrtnosti, osje?aj da, ?ak i ako sa?uvamo svaku mrvicu života, nagomilamo ih na divovsku hrpu, a potom pažljivo prosijemo da izvu?emo sva mogu?a zna?enja, sve to zajedno opet ne?e sastaviti jedan život.

the ironic point of view is sometimes the only legitimate way to interpret the reality we live in.

In the arts," James wrote, "feeling is always meaning.

And later in the letter, he elaborated further, "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Art is not about art. Art is about life.   L. B.

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you.

Love is our only weapon. Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear.

I love my life, because I've seen my purpose.

Whatever 'in love' means.

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

Love, life, meaning...over.

A life lived in love will never be dull.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.

I have to save the parts of my soul that are left for the good roles and the true love.

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment.