We're creating multiple personas. We're creating a thespian sense of personality where we see ourselves as works of art, and we see… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and… — Esther Vilar Copy Share Image
I consider drawings finished works of art, first of all. However, the ideas can be something that can be developed into something… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose… — William-Adolphe Bouguereau Copy Share Image
I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I've seen nerdists make tributes to their obsessions out of Legos that are like works of art. It just goes to show… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all… — Allan Nevins Copy Share Image
It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the… — Drew Bledsoe Copy Share Image
If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it; but I do not overlook the fact,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution,… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I start by thinking I'm going to make use of all possibilities without troubling any longer about problems when something starts to… — Jan Dibbets Copy Share Image
A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high value set by connoisseurs on drawings which… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
I like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
“I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with… — Yaacov Agam Copy Share Image
