The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art. — Terence McKenna 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
Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith.… — Deepak Chopra 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
I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to… — Jewel Copy Share Image
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation. — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of… — Madeleine L'Engle 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
There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in… — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of… — Albert Einstein 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
A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby,… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges. — Beatrice Wood Copy Share Image
I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art. — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks — Clive James Copy Share Image
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
