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
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
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
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of… — John Denver Copy Share Image
Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby,… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity… No inspiration is too noble… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life. — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
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