Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when…

“The Work of Art. When I watch the audience at a concert or the crowd in the picture gallery I ask myself sometimes what…

— W. Somerset Maugham

A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it...

— Andre Breton

“Art value always goes up once the artist’s associated with fucked-up things such as cutting off his own ear like Van Gogh, or marrying…

— Matthew Quick

To love something as an artist ... means to be shaken not by its ultimate value or lack of value, but by a side…

— Robert Musil

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

— Thomas A. Edison

“We must remember, however, that art is of value only to the extent that it speaks to us. It might be a universal language…

— Kakuzō Okakura

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

— Bernard Berenson

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

— Anonymous

I think there should be a reworking of the value structure of art. The value is when the artist makes a first engagement with…

— Lawrence Weiner

“The bonds of friendship dwindle with age, Oliver. But a little blackmail lasts forever.”

— Stephen Hunt

Being nice to people gets you nowhere. Being arrogant gets you nowhere. Blackmail, now that's a thing that will get you everywhere.

— Anonymous

“He is a brilliant man, said Miss Doggett. She helped him a good deal in his work, I think. Mrs. Bonner says that she…

— Barbara Pym

“I’m afraid I don’t suffer petty bureaucrats gladly. A very bad habit, but one I find hard to break. Nevertheless, you will find, Dr.…

— Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of…

— Ayn Rand

“Either you want to try and blackmail me or you're hitting on me. Which is it?”

— Melanie Tushmore