Art Quote by John Hersey Download Open image “The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.” — John Hersey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Beauty Finals Tests Works of art
The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art. — Fred Ross Copy Share Image
The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function. — Giannina Braschi Copy Share Image
Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
“Mankind must destroy anti-humanity before it becomes extinct itself.” — John Hersey Copy Share Image
“This private estate was far enough away from the explosion so that its bamboos, pines, laurel, and maples were still alive, and the green… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
To my great surprise, I never heard anyone cry out in the disorder, even though they suffered in great agony. They died in silence,… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
“…she looked like Vivien, the Lady of the Lake, only she was fat and her lake was dust, sand and dust, bones and dust… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction… — John Hersey 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
