Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power. — John Hersey 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
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
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
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
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
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
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something… — Elise Broach Copy Share Image
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough.… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Kurosawa was one of film's true greats... His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. So… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Every year on my birthday I get a small dash on my inner thigh where my balls currently hang. You can't tell… — Daniel Tosh 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
The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved… — Silvano Arieti Copy Share Image
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures.… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
