He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life,… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
The world of psychology and the world of normal life tends to look down on obsession. It's not good for you, and… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker...… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
Experiment - exercising to see the result. We planned Europa not as an experiment in this sense but as a work of… — Stefan Themerson Copy Share Image
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
When I started to take literature and poetry classes, I just started to get inspired by these new incredible works of art… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism.… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
