A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special… — John Heartfield Copy Share Image
The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your… — Rick Jarow Copy Share Image
One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has… — Maurice Denis Copy Share Image
Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of… — Luke Salisbury Copy Share Image
If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is… — Oscar Wilde 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 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
So now, how did God produce this world?... The fable is that he breathed upon us. In his breath, his wind, came… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There is no mystery in a looking glass until someone looks into it. Then, though it remains the same glass, it presents… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share Image
The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle taught us that money should be durable, divisible, consistent, convenient, and value in itself. It should… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to… — Jewel Copy Share Image
What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad… — Okakura Kakuzo 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
The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart. — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
