Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a… — Lewis Mumford 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The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“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
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
Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste,… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art,… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss… — Yukiru Sugisaki Copy Share Image
“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world of psychology and the world of normal life tends to look down on obsession. It's not good for you, and… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so,… — Elizabeth Hardwick 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
Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make… — Geoff Hamilton Copy Share Image
All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality... ...The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
Every work of art has its necessity; find out your very own. Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle… — Mu Xin Copy Share Image
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer,… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
