Meanings Quotes

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.