I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope… — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art.… — Egon Schiele Copy Share Image
Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day,… — Vi Hart Copy Share Image
The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Literal thousands of Americans taking to the road and getting into that green automobile and just going. At the same time there… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the limits of personality, in the possibility of change, and the saving power of art. Do powerful works of… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something… — Elise Broach Copy Share Image
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough.… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art,… — Flannery O'Connor 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. So… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Our entire being is nourished… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a… — Chet Baker Copy Share Image
Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message… — Jeanette Winterson 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
I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism.… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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