The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
An exhibition is in many ways a series of conversations. Between the artist and viewer, curator and viewer, and between the works… — Thelma Golden Copy Share Image
In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as… — William Gaddis 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
It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew,… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems. — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art. — Kafu Nagai Copy Share Image
Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
