The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing. — Anton Ehrenzweig Copy Share Image
The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and… — Anonymous 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
There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate… — Jacques Maritain 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
When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it. — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it… — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it... — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Nothing compares to pizza, and you discover and rediscover it when you are much too old, and you have got too much… — Augusto De Luca 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
