Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the… — Tyrone Guthrie Copy Share Image
Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of… — Amedeo Modigliani Copy Share Image
If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations-more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be… — Twyla Tharp 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 have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share,… — Julie Moir Messervy Copy Share Image
No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny,… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
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
People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
In order to gain some insight into the forces that elevate certain products to the level of 'works of art' it is… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its… — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself.… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
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