I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a…

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

— Luis Bunuel

Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work…

— Marcel Duchamp

A game of rugby is a work of art!

— Danie Craven

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

— Edvard Munch

The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to…

— Lloyd Alexander

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

— Robert Rauschenberg

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present…

— Anonymous

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

— Russell Sherman

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

— Abbas Kiarostami

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

— Lana Del Rey

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol…

— Oscar Wilde

A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater…

— Gerhard Richter

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write…

— Damien Hirst

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

— Bernard Berenson

A race is a work of art.

— Steve Prefontaine