Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real. — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't,… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art. — Eric Gibbons Copy Share Image
Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself.… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
So now, how did God produce this world?... The fable is that he breathed upon us. In his breath, his wind, came… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Kaldar smiled at her. Now there was a work of art. If she were just a girl and he were just a… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into… — Mervyn Levy Copy Share Image
I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean.… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little… — John Banville Copy Share Image
It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active,… — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
