Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art. — Kafu Nagai Copy Share Image
It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 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
The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Nothing compares to pizza, and you discover and rediscover it when you are much too old, and you have got too much… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art,… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful.… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A… — George Inness Copy Share Image
The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Every year on my birthday I get a small dash on my inner thigh where my balls currently hang. You can't tell… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved… — Silvano Arieti Copy Share Image
From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted… — Nelly Mazloum 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
...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I? — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
You can make your life into a grand ever-evolving work of art. The key is your thoughts, the wonderous invisible part of… — Wayne Dyer 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
The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation. — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but… — Ken Adam Copy Share Image
