Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in… — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life,… — John Cusack 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
To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of… — Dave Chambers Copy Share Image
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Being unique seems more desirable than ever. People are exhausted by clichés, by platitudes, by mass-produced realities, by what's been done and… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I… — Felix Gonzalez-Torres Copy Share Image
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time;… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
A Great Work of Art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form.… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation. Star Trek and Spock, if they are works of art, can be discussed. But… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist - what color to paint, what… — Leonard Pitts Copy Share Image
The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
When I started to take literature and poetry classes, I just started to get inspired by these new incredible works of art… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Where the perhapses are found something has to be done about it and since art deals in the perhapses & maybe sos… — John Marin Copy Share Image
To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Thinking is seeing… Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it… — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it -… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three.… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book ‘Art as Experience,’ you… — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect,… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
