I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product. — Richard McKenna Copy Share Image
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
In order to gain some insight into the forces that elevate certain products to the level of 'works of art' it is… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its… — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
When contemplating a work of art it is possible to perceive if it has been created according to the eye or to… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no mystery in a looking glass until someone looks into it. Then, though it remains the same glass, it presents… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share Image
I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
But before all else a work of art is the creation of love. Love for the subject first and for the medium… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle taught us that money should be durable, divisible, consistent, convenient, and value in itself. It should… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history. — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color. — Sonia Delaunay Copy Share Image
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art. — Fred Ross Copy Share Image
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
