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My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love… — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they… — Felix Frankfurter
I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to… — Jasper Johns
All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes… — Henry Moore
The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning. — Auguste Rodin
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It… — Alexander Calder
When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing.… — Jeff Bezos
I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte, meaning… — Jacques Rivette
The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when… — John Stott
Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word. — Liam Gallagher
Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking. — Jasper Johns
I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and… — Jasper Johns
There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists. — Jasper Johns
In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things. — Constantin Brancusi
And though the meaning fits, there's no relief in this. I miss my beautiful friend. — Jeff Buckley
Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it most wants to… — Steven Pressfield
When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest… — Steven Pressfield
Only Christianity and its teachings can explain the purpose and meaning of this world--and also gives the basis for right and wrong, good and evil,… — Ken Ham
When you write a song, most of the words you use are in black and white, and then, from time to time, you use one… — Jacques Brel
I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see… — Michel Gondry
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and… — Chris Hedges
The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can… — Chris Hedges
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. — Leo Tolstoy
Trivial participation ultimately bores you, leaves behind a sense of shallowness, contributes little to your deeper sense of life. Significant participation, on the other hand,… — Henryk Skolimowski
I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning. — Kay WalkingStick

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