Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what… — William Morris Copy Share Image
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
An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other,… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I have to say, doing theater, that's what you're trained to do. Doing film, when I first started doing it, felt like… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners,… — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or… — Herbert Read 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
No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may… — Henry James Copy Share Image
An exhibition is in many ways a series of conversations. Between the artist and viewer, curator and viewer, and between the works… — Thelma Golden Copy Share Image
A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love skating. I love the speed, the power, the excitement, the feeling that --- even for just a moment --- I… — Brian Boitano Copy Share Image
The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My art takes birth when my loneliness becomes my companion... when I take lives and deaths much personally and work when others… — Jeet Aulakh Copy Share Image
Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art. This gossamer quality, the… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Think about how many great works of art or game-changing ideas were ahead of their time - their creator's talent underappreciated until… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may… — Auguste Rodin 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
