Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music… — Ted Shawn Copy Share Image
The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a… — Lewis Mumford 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
I'm very much against photographs being framed and treated with reverence and signed and sold as works of art. They aren't. They… — Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Copy Share Image
When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world of psychology and the world of normal life tends to look down on obsession. It's not good for you, and… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss… — Yukiru Sugisaki Copy Share Image
I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art,… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste,… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of… — John Denver Copy Share Image
My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with… — Yaacov Agam Copy Share Image
Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes… — Susan Sontag 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
A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
No work of art is more important than the Christian's life, and every Christian is called to be an artist in this… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's… — Donald Kuspit Copy Share Image
Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by… — Hans Hofmann 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
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