Art Quote by Edgard Varese Download Open image “I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.” — Edgard Varese ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Certain Clumsiness Work Works of art
I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world. — Moby Copy Share
To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely. — Thomas Hoving Copy Share Image
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life. — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
There's nothing I love more than admiring the details and embellishments on the works of art that I wear. — Violet Chachki Copy Share Image
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape,… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment. — Edgard Varese 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 water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“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 who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“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