Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of… — Keorapetse Kgositsile Copy Share Image
it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies.… — Joseph Raffael Copy Share Image
I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature,… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you… — Thomas Crum Copy Share Image
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess… — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its being and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs… — Klaus Teuber Copy Share Image
A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the… — Jose Clemente Orozco Copy Share Image
The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I don't like the fact that no one has any imagination anymore. It doesn't pay to be a dreamer because all they… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works… — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art. — Richard Wollheim Copy Share Image
The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity. — Ferdinand Hodler Copy Share Image
Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original. — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
