True Work Quotes

24 quotes by 20 authors

• No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work… — Thomas Carlyle
• Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from Gods, or from… — Gautama Buddha
• It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even… — Steven Pressfield
• As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in,… — Taiye Selasi
• The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a… — Robert Henri
• Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me. — Watchman Nee
• The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every… — Albert Camus
• There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each… — Albert Camus
• During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after… — Muhammad Ali
• Properly speaking, all true work is religion. — Thomas Carlyle
• All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth,… — Thomas Carlyle
• Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end,… — Muriel Barbery
• The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag… — Cyril Connolly
• Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is… — George Arthur Buttrick
• When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart. — Waylon Jennings
• No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted… — Frederic Farrar
• Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
• The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less. — Albert Camus
• The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him. — John Ruskin
• If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and… — David Steindl-Rast

Who Wrote These True Work Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 24 True Work Quotes as follows:

• 3 True Work Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
• 3 True Work Quotes by Albert Camus
• 1 True Work Quote by Gautama Buddha
• 1 True Work Quote by Steven Pressfield
• 1 True Work Quote by Taiye Selasi
• 1 True Work Quote by Robert Henri
• 1 True Work Quote by Watchman Nee
• 1 True Work Quote by Muhammad Ali
• 1 True Work Quote by Muriel Barbery
• 1 True Work Quote by Cyril Connolly
• 1 True Work Quote by George Arthur Buttrick
• 1 True Work Quote by Waylon Jennings
• 1 True Work Quote by Frederic Farrar
• 1 True Work Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
• 1 True Work Quote by John Ruskin
• 1 True Work Quote by David Steindl-Rast
• 1 True Work Quote by Roger Scruton
• 1 True Work Quote by Henry Adams
• 1 True Work Quote by Michelangelo
• 1 True Work Quote by Wassily Kandinsky