Art Quote by Jean Cocteau

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted…

— Michael Howard

Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them…

— William H. Gass

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

— Pope John Paul II

The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word…

— Gustave Flaubert

All works of art should begin... at the end.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?

— Marcel Duchamp

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

— Alain de Botton

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

— Marcel Proust

But of works of art little can be said.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Leo's goals are works of art.

— Frank Rijkaard

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

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

We're all works of art in progress.

— Carmen Dell'Orefice