Every work of art has its necessity; find out your very own. Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There,… — Pavel Florensky Copy Share Image
All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its… — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without… — Max Bill Copy Share Image
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke,… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the… — Drew Bledsoe Copy Share Image
I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
