In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted… — Nelly Mazloum Copy Share Image
Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to… — Michel Foucault 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
You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism.… — Joris-Karl Huysmans 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
I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other,… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw 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
If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide… — James Young Copy Share Image
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement. — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity. — Barbara Goldsmith Copy Share Image
