Works of art Quotes

A work of art doesn't have to be explained,

— Louise Bourgeois

Every work of art is about everything.

— Eli Siegel

Every work of art changes its predecessors.

— Mason Cooley

You too are a work of art.

— Bernie Siegel

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

— Anonymous

The personality is a work of art.

— Diana Vreeland

My body is a gradual work of art

— Rick Genest

Beautiful old people are works of art.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

— Caspar David Friedrich

Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

— Laura Esquivel

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

— E. M. Forster

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

— Henry Green

The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.

— Anton Ehrenzweig

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

— Erwin McManus

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.

— Anonymous

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of…

— Edward Gordon Craig

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works…

— Xavier Becerra

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but…

— Ken Adam

A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they…

— Walter Pater

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding…

— Guy Davenport

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is…

— Jerry Saltz

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners,…

— Francis Picabia

I have to say, doing theater, that's what you're trained to do. Doing film, when I first started doing it, felt like…

— Viola Davis

While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of…

— Mark Rothko

You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art…

— Marina Abramovic

The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate…

— Clive Bell

A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a…

— Ben Shahn

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must…

— Anonymous

What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to…

— William Carlos Williams

Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing…

— D. H. Lawrence

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would…

— Gregory David Roberts

Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art…

— Joseph Beuys

It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those…

— Wilfred Trotter

Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby,…

— Michelle Huneven