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
The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful -… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither… — Marcus Aurelius 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
In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability — Shinichi Suzuki 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
A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and… — Freya Stark 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
If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of… — Amedeo Modigliani Copy Share Image
Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss… — Yukiru Sugisaki Copy Share Image
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates… — David Walker Copy Share Image
