A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken. — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work… — Edward G. Robinson Copy Share Image
A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and… — Thomas Hoving Copy Share Image
Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life,… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A… — George Inness Copy Share Image
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but… — Ken Adam Copy Share Image
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of… — Edward Gordon Craig Copy Share Image
The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special… — John Heartfield Copy Share Image
Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your… — Rick Jarow Copy Share Image
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Each one of us is God's special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art. — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
