Works Of Art Quotes
627 Works Of Art quotes by 437 unique authors
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside…
— John Banville
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and…
— Clive Bell
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We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose…
— Clive Bell
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Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included...…
— Joseph Beuys
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Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
— Theodor Adorno
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I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember…
— William S. Burroughs
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
— Albert Camus
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I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
— Paul Cezanne
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
— Jean Cocteau
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You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking…
— Marina Abramovic
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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.
— Grace Hartigan
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All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle.
— Unknown Author
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The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again…
— William Beebe
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Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can…
— Albert Barnes
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The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate a work of…
— Clive Bell
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I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is... and…
— E. J. Hughes
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You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true of any work…
— Laurence Overmire
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Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel was never so…
— Walter J. Phillips
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention…
— Northrop Frye
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
— Marcel Proust
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We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually…
— Joshua Foer
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Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly satisfying…
— Geoff Hamilton
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