I don't understand why people think everything has to have meaning. While painting the Mona Lisa did Leonardo Da Vinci intend for it to have greater meaning than a work of art that he made?
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Related While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. -Leonardo Da ... OLIVER BOWDEN He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. On Leonardo Da Vinci PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. LEONARDO DA VINCI Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well ben... DAN BROWN ...the most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci NORMAN MACLEAN Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is nee... BEN SHNEIDERMAN We look at the Mona Lisa and say we're going to do our version of the Mona Lisa. We mirror it. B... TERRANCE HAYES I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I tr... PHARRELL WILLIAMS Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension. ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words hav... YUNA I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci ... ROY AYERS Everything has to have a context to have meaning. DONALD LYNN FROST My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the i... ANDREI TARKOVSKY As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vin... VIGGO MORTENSEN The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. Yo... MOBY Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were gi... H. JACKSON BROWN JR. Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were gi... H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were gi... H. JACKSON BROWN JR. Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. CHARLES DE LINT There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than... MARCEL DUCHAMP Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands. SARAH DUNANT Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography... ALFRED STIEGLITZ Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were gi... H. JACKSON BROWN I actually think it's harder to write a song than poetry. I try to pick words that sound lyrical and... DAVID HAZEL Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the s... SHANNON L. ALDER I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-dr... JOHN LASSETER Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything. ANTHONY ROBBINS We want to develop a battery that has a graceful failure - meaning that if it's damaged, it won't ca... DAN DOUGHTY So many people understand language, but few people understand the real meaning of language. They tha... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the for... SOL LEWITT The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, o... DAN BROWN Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things,... STANLEY SPENCER Don't do it, because you have to do it.
Do it, because you love to do it. PRITISH PATTANAIK You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The longer you admire and stare at the Mona Lisa, the shorter your time becomes to create something ... MARCUS MAYO Everything that happens in our lives has meaning even though we may not understand it or even pay at... DEBASISH MRIDHA I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning. ADAM DRIVER Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Wh... TIM O'BRIEN I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to ... NICHOLAS SPARKS I had a discussion with the editor of the magazine and he said that he wanted to have a painting tha... BORIS VALLEJO My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The Mer... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Excepting for knowledge nothing has any meaning, and to have no meaning is to be nonexistence RICHARD BURDON HALDANE I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far mor... SYD BARRETT I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.' IAN MCKELLEN Does it mean that being a Southerner no longer has any meaning? I don't think it does. It just has a... LARRY GRIFFIN Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. HENRY MILLER Sometimes people think they are looking for the meaning of life, when really they are looking for an... WENDY MASS I have loved ... and love infuses everything else, infuses confusion and the blankness and the fear ... KIM WILKINS Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. CLARE BOOTHE LUCE As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions mad... REID HOFFMAN Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found... C.S. LEWIS Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he ... STORM JAMESON Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself - except why he... STORM JAMESON In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they p... GRAHAM GREENE In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting m... ANTONI TAPIES Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT if we knew the meaning of life it would cease to have meaning SAMUEL DAVID HIRES . . . That's what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, ... WILLIAM GADDIS I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes... GRIMES Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love th... PABLO PICASSO This is the Mona Lisa of bad diners. DANIEL CLOWES Well, for that matter, I was also a good friend of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Francis Bacon, Alb... ALYSON NOEL We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of... IRVIN D. YALOM I think J&J has a claim. I don't think they are going to have to pay Guidant. JOANNE WUENSCH Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be. NOEL COWARD I try to give people the ability to articulate their being. We must stop and think about our ethical... CLIFF HAKIM The first marriage for a man is a big lesson, the second a grave blunder, the third a fatal accident... ANUJ SOMANY In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they ... ORSON WELLES There's no new news -- everybody thinks war is imminent, ... Bush has made it clear we're going. I d... MIKE FITZPATRICK Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the m... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We have seen that English words have meaning in a sentence because of their position in the sentence... CHARLTON LAIRD The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that ch... FREYA STARK Everything happening to you now is a signal or symbol and has meaning. Your opportunity is to recogn... RUSSELL ANTHONY GIBBS I don't have a lot of time to speak... but we will speak soon. DEYTH BANGER Humans don't have any type of interest... HAVING SO MUCH STUFF AROUND THEM AND SO LITTLE INTEREST IN... DEYTH BANGER Rumfoord had known that Constant would try to debase the picture by using it in commerce. Constant's... KURT VONNEGUT For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-k... ROBERT PINSKY My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a ... LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY As people think and work together, a fabric of shared meaning comes into being. HARRISON OWEN The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the... DAN BROWN It was almost a theatrical moment. I'll never understand why he did that. He gave his gesture, and I... PETER SMITH Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it. PHILIP PULLMAN The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance , while a story mus... VERA NAZARIAN Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so ... WILLIAM COBBETT We seem to live in a world where you have to walk around grinning like a loon. I can’t understand ... KARL PILKINGTON I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I ... KATHLEEN HANNA The meaning to life is to have a meaning in life and the purpose of life is to have a purpose. ANDONI GARCIA I dont think he's as strong as McCline, ... I understand he comes to fight and throws a lot of punch... CALVIN BROCK I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it... WILL FERRELL Because I did not understand the difference between meaning and happiness, I did not appreciate that... JAMES CASTLETON, MD, MENDING OF A BROKEN HEART Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question an... JANELLE MONAE Mr. Phillips said he didn't want a conventional art museum. His favorite verb was 'to linger,' meani... JAY GATES We try to connect meaning to everything. Otherwise it becomes a practice that's sort of empty, eatin... DIANE ARCHER Everyone has a gift. It's up to you to decide what you do with it. ANTHONY T. HINCKS When you finally understand the meaning of life, you come to the conclusion it has none after all BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi... STEVEN PINKER If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ... FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
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