Also see line , shape , and form . The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. Modern Man in Search of a Soul , 1933. Even if it's only his view of a meaning. Interview in Writers at Work , Second Series, edited by George Plimpton, 1963.
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work. The meaning of art in our time flows from this function of self-creation. Art is the laboratory for making new men. Discovering the Present , part 4, chapter 24, 1973. Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.