Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the… — Robert Nozick 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
The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
When contemplating a work of art it is possible to perceive if it has been created according to the eye or to… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you… — Thomas Crum Copy Share Image
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature,… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The question if this is a work of art or not is not very interesting for us. Probably it is situated in… — Bernd Becher 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
I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker...… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams… — Lisa Simeone Copy Share Image
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without… — Giorgio de Chirico 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
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke,… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its being and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess… — Vasily Smyslov 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
If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of… — Luke Salisbury Copy Share Image
Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has… — Maurice Denis Copy Share Image
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Experiment - exercising to see the result. We planned Europa not as an experiment in this sense but as a work of… — Stefan Themerson 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
The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
