To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works… — Thomas Huxley 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 go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in… — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
A movie is just like a work of art or a book or a piece of music. The intent of its maker… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is… — Gerard Manley Hopkins 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
“Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with… — Yaacov Agam Copy Share Image
A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it -… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small,… — Carl Sagan 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
What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form.… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners,… — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
