Art Quote by Guy Davenport Download Open image “A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.” — Guy Davenport ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Force Form Works of art
A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by virtue of… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken. — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.” — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck to starve,… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“I God, a very Gomorry on wheels! You lead the most exciting life I know of, and complain more about it than any two… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and recognized and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge,… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it. — Guy Davenport 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
