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Works Of Art Quotes by Lewis Mumford
- The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of…
- Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate,…
- Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.
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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… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- 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
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a… — Clive Bell
- Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of… — Joseph Beuys
- Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. — Theodor Adorno
- I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art.… — William S. Burroughs
- A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. — Albert Camus
- I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch… — Helena Bonham Carter
- A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. — Paul Cezanne
- Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. — Jean Cocteau
- You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art… — Marina Abramovic