The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art. — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks — Clive James Copy Share Image
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art. — Eric Gibbons Copy Share Image
A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little… — John Banville Copy Share Image
It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations-more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images;… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I view all art as an effort to translate brain concepts into a work. These brain concepts are synthetic ones - the… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
If the seminary is too large, it ought to be divided into smaller communities with formators who are equipped really to accompany… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing. — John Marin Copy Share Image
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges. — Beatrice Wood Copy Share Image
The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed. — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
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