Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a… — Chet Baker Copy Share Image
I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism.… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art. — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks — Clive James Copy Share Image
