Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of… — William S. McFeely Copy Share Image
The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works… — Xavier Becerra 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
Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its… — Walter Benjamin 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
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
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of… — Dave Chambers 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
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art,… — Marianne Moore 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
