A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality. — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is… — Albert Pinkham Ryder Copy Share Image
You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with. — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little… — Leonard Lauder Copy Share Image
To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest… — Robert Rodale Copy Share Image
You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer,… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle… — Mu Xin Copy Share Image
If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more… — Dieter Roth Copy Share Image
If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us -… — P. K. Page Copy Share Image
What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Every work of art has its necessity; find out your very own. Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations-more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the… — Tyrone Guthrie Copy Share Image
In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of… — Amedeo Modigliani Copy Share Image
We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
