Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself. — John Huston Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure, I feel like a work of art. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself. — Edward Hirsch 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
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
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
When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Sam Fuller and 'Shock Corridor' can only be conjured as a mantra. 'Shock Corridor' is a classic work of art - it's… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image