Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said,… — Delia Smith Copy Share Image
The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you... — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
The question if this is a work of art or not is not very interesting for us. Probably it is situated in… — Bernd Becher Copy Share Image
I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work… — Brooke McEldowney Copy Share Image
I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker...… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke,… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There,… — Pavel Florensky Copy Share Image
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked women. Women's magazines also feature pictures of naked women. This is because the female body… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
