It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the… — Tyrone Guthrie Copy Share Image
It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer,… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity. — Barbara Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art,… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into… — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Every year on my birthday I get a small dash on my inner thigh where my balls currently hang. You can't tell… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking… — Henry James Copy Share Image
