I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art. — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
I don't like the fact that no one has any imagination anymore. It doesn't pay to be a dreamer because all they… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little… — Leonard Lauder Copy Share Image
Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the limits of personality, in the possibility of change, and the saving power of art. Do powerful works of… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan,… — Freeman Dyson 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
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the… — Robert Smithson 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
That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
