The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. — Patrick Duffy Copy Share Image
There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art. — Sri Chinmoy 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
When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered. — T. S. Eliot 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
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 am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled,… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss… — Yukiru Sugisaki Copy Share Image
I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art,… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ancient art has a specific inner content. At one time, art possessed the same purpose that books do in our day, namely:… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into… — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
