Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make… — Geoff Hamilton Copy Share Image
The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
I've making videos since I was seventeen I was originally discollecting vintage hmmm... footages from different archives and setting moving pictures to… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to… — James Vance Copy Share Image
Is there in every work of art something which shows reality as one and also something which shows reality as many and… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist." — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Kaldar smiled at her. Now there was a work of art. If she were just a girl and he were just a… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images;… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar… — Anton Webern 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
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
