Doe Quote by Roland Barthes

The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their…

— Joseph Conrad

I think there are no meaningful images. Meanings are created outside of the image.

— Joachim Schmid

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it…

— Mark Ryden

Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean,…

— Win Butler

An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happens that we will find the truth…

— Antoni Tapies

End with an image and don't explain.

— Stanley Kunitz

I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.

— Kay WalkingStick

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

— Rajneesh

In being meaning, you naturally find meaning in everything.

— John de Ruiter

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's…

— Nick Harkaway

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

— Donald Miller

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

— Ursula K. Le Guin