Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path…

Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.

— Freeman Dyson

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

— William L. Shirer

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

— Romain Rolland

I would like now to shed light in your heart on the truth of things, for it was not my will, but that of…

— Judas Iscariot

Leo's goals are works of art.

— Frank Rijkaard

We're all works of art in progress.

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication…

— Brassai

All works of art should begin... at the end.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?

— Marcel Duchamp

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

— Michael Heizer

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

— Marcel Proust

But of works of art little can be said.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

— Alain de Botton