You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time;… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different… — Edward Lucie-Smith Copy Share Image
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work… — Bill Viola 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
There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art. — Fred Ross Copy Share Image
Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
These days any self-respecting exhibition of nude photos has to have pornographically explicit images to prove that they are works of art. — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify… — Henri Matisse 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
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
No work of art is more important than the Christian's life, and every Christian is called to be an artist in this… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
