Art Quote by Christopher Ricks Download Open image “A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.” — Christopher Ricks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Attention Focus Great work Pay attention Works of art
A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed. — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved in a… — Silvano Arieti Copy Share Image
Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise. — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good. — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things. — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
