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
The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience. — Abbas Kiarostami 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
If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art. — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers. — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
It's about time you admitted that you are a miraculous work of art. You came into this world as a radiant bundle… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
A work of art enters life very much like another human being - complicated, loaded with overtones and meaning, mysterious, enticing, obsessive,… — Budd Hopkins Copy Share Image
Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and… — Esther Vilar Copy Share Image
I consider drawings finished works of art, first of all. However, the ideas can be something that can be developed into something… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Some of our most powerful works of art have been produced by older Americans-by hands that have engaged in years of hard… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not… — Ruth Whitman Copy Share Image
In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan,… — Freeman Dyson 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
Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks — Clive James Copy Share Image
A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing. — John Marin Copy Share Image
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges. — Beatrice Wood Copy Share Image
A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed. — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
