It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you... — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said,… — Delia Smith Copy Share Image
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may… — Henry James Copy Share Image
But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
...The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful -… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student… — Georg Buhler Copy Share Image
He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into… — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is… — Paterson Ewen Copy Share Image
The Aston Martin is a beautiful car. It's a work of art, I love the interior and the style of the car. — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears… — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
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