Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation. — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A Great Work of Art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of… — Dave Chambers Copy Share Image
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as… — Clive James Copy Share Image
If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide… — James Young Copy Share Image
I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There,… — Pavel Florensky Copy Share Image
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images;… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement. — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
