Art Quote by Herbert Read

As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.…

— Susan Sontag

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act…

— Samuel Alexander

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to…

— Walter Benjamin

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

— Samuel Alexander

But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are…

— Herbert Read

Works of art inspire me to compose.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Leo's goals are works of art.

— Frank Rijkaard

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I…

— E. M. Forster

They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

— Michael Heizer

“...an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.”

— Edmund Wilson

Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication…

— Brassai

“Hence Proust’s assertion that the greatness of works of art has nothing to do with the apparent quality of their subject matter, and everything…

— Alain de Botton