The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose… — William-Adolphe Bouguereau Copy Share Image
I've seen nerdists make tributes to their obsessions out of Legos that are like works of art. It just goes to show… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution,… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I start by thinking I'm going to make use of all possibilities without troubling any longer about problems when something starts to… — Jan Dibbets Copy Share Image
If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it; but I do not overlook the fact,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
“I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high value set by connoisseurs on drawings which… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
I like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist - what color to paint, what… — Leonard Pitts Copy Share Image
Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
When I started to take literature and poetry classes, I just started to get inspired by these new incredible works of art… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Where the perhapses are found something has to be done about it and since art deals in the perhapses & maybe sos… — John Marin Copy Share Image
Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form.… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
“What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation. Star Trek and Spock, if they are works of art, can be discussed. But… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
