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
More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art. — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. — George Lucas 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
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
Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is… — Jean Dubuffet 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
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all… — Allan Nevins Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the… — Aga Khan IV 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
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
The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be… — Lloyd Alexander 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
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed. Beyond the meaning (of a work of art), it… — Stan Lee 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
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
Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others,… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal. — Albert Camus 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
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
Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art. — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it. — Michael Heizer 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
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
