The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity… No inspiration is too noble… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life. — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean… — James Frey Copy Share Image
You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clouds? From… — Erich von Däniken Copy Share Image
Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of… — William S. McFeely Copy Share Image
And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You should go to picture-galleries and museums of sculpture to be acted upon, and not to express or try to form your… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908) — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business,… — Dev Anand Copy Share Image
No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if… — Egon Schiele Copy Share Image
The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them. — Lawren Harris 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
A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said,… — Delia Smith Copy Share Image
I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you... — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
