A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art. — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908) — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked women. Women's magazines also feature pictures of naked women. This is because the female body… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I? — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect,… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
Kurosawa was one of film's true greats... His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. So… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so,… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that… — June Singer Copy Share Image
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
