Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
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
Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of… — William Blake Copy Share Image
A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not… — Ruth Whitman Copy Share Image
All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of… — Keorapetse Kgositsile Copy Share Image
Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work… — Brooke McEldowney Copy Share Image
A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other,… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being.… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art.… — Egon Schiele Copy Share Image
If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a… — Bernard Berenson 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
