Some of our most powerful works of art have been produced by older Americans-by hands that have engaged in years of hard… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough.… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken. — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a… — Carson McCullers 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
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
Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history. — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color. — Sonia Delaunay Copy Share Image
If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically.… — Susan Sontag 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
It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
...The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
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