In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny,… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share,… — Julie Moir Messervy Copy Share Image
The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art,… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled,… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Years ago I decided that the greatest need in our Country was Art... We were a very young country and had very… — Isabella Stewart Gardner Copy Share Image
Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being.… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
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