Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art. — Eric Gibbons Copy Share Image
I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane.… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous. — Laura Esquivel 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
The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing. — John Marin Copy Share Image
I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work… — Edward G. Robinson Copy Share Image
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as… — Clive James Copy Share Image
One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life,… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
