In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity. — Ferdinand Hodler Copy Share Image
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it; but I do not overlook the fact,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I start by thinking I'm going to make use of all possibilities without troubling any longer about problems when something starts to… — Jan Dibbets Copy Share Image
Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution,… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There,… — Pavel Florensky Copy Share Image
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original. — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product. — Richard McKenna Copy Share Image
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
