I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it. — Henry Green Copy Share Image
The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing. — Anton Ehrenzweig Copy Share Image
To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous. — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the… — Tyrone Guthrie Copy Share Image
Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of… — Amedeo Modigliani Copy Share Image
Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life. — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
