The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work… — Edward G. Robinson Copy Share Image
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and… — Thomas Hoving Copy Share Image
You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Experiment - exercising to see the result. We planned Europa not as an experiment in this sense but as a work of… — Stefan Themerson Copy Share Image
Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images;… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I view all art as an effort to translate brain concepts into a work. These brain concepts are synthetic ones - the… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. — Patrick Duffy Copy Share Image
The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps. — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast. — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
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