A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,'…

A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any…

— John F. Carlson

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as…

— Helmut Newton

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

— Marcel Duchamp

If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.

— Willem de Kooning

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

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

— Luis Bunuel

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

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