Quotes about Meaning

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose.

The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends life has meaning. But this is, of course, entirely inconsistent—for without God, man and the universe are without any real significance.

In the time of your life, live---so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for andy life your life touches.

I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.