A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it... — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken. — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908) — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
I have to say, doing theater, that's what you're trained to do. Doing film, when I first started doing it, felt like… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My art takes birth when my loneliness becomes my companion... when I take lives and deaths much personally and work when others… — Jeet Aulakh Copy Share Image
Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not… — Ruth Whitman Copy Share Image
Some of our most powerful works of art have been produced by older Americans-by hands that have engaged in years of hard… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure, I feel like a work of art. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself. — John Huston Copy Share Image
