Art Quote by Katherine Paterson Download Open image “a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.” — Katherine Paterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Book Entertaining Firsts Work
“The work of art always requires us to adapt to it—and in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment, which instead… — Ted Gioia Copy Share Image
“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.” — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
“Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
“Art requires contemplation that focuses attention on the viewer developing a relationship with the work of art, not merely passively receiving a message.” — Daniel A. Siedell Copy Share Image
Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator. — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore, — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“I had no study in those days, not even a desk or file or bookcase to call mine alone....It might have happened sooner [the… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the… — Katherine Paterson 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