Great Work Quotes

224 Great Work quotes by 179 unique authors

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. — Oscar Wilde
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. — Thornton Wilder
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive… — Henri Nouwen
A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the… — Anthony Burgess
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. — Helen Keller
The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym… — Vladimir Nabokov
Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us… — Azar Nafisi
If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the… — Paulo Coelho
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But… — Dorothy Parker
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life,… — Azar Nafisi
A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible… — Elise Broach
It is so important to see that we are all converted, that we have in our hearts a conviction concerning this great work. It is… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished… — Eudora Welty
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that… — Karen Armstrong
We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual,… — Azar Nafisi
Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the… — Isadora Duncan
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it… — Julia Cameron
We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to… — Federico Fellini
All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. — Sidney Lumet
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying. — Albert Camus
We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures,… — Tony Kushner
The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the only… — Phil Dusenberry
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you daven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. — Steve Jobs
Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity. — Daniel Barenboim

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