Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original. — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
I love skating. I love the speed, the power, the excitement, the feeling that --- even for just a moment --- I… — Brian Boitano Copy Share Image
No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may… — Henry James 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
I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Think about how many great works of art or game-changing ideas were ahead of their time - their creator's talent underappreciated until… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they… — Jerry Saltz 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
Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active,… — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product. — Richard McKenna Copy Share Image
The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history. — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color. — Sonia Delaunay Copy Share Image
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art. — Fred Ross Copy Share Image
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
