The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of… — Edward Gordon Craig Copy Share Image
Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life,… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than… — Brassai Copy Share Image
Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Art is not for the personal satisfaction of one or the other, but art wants to return all what's in life... Art… — Bram van Velde Copy Share Image
Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures.… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken. — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with… — Sydney Pollack 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
What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work… — Edward G. Robinson Copy Share Image
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and… — Thomas Hoving Copy Share Image
Each one of us is God's special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art. — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special… — John Heartfield Copy Share Image
To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
