Art Quote by Niklas Luhmann Download Open image “The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.” — Niklas Luhmann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Improbable Inspirational Works of art
“It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”—capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of “endless interpretation. But Lubin, the Charlotte C.… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why… — Guy Davenport 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
“... it often occurs that a work of art — even though incomprehensible — remains in the mind, and produces its effect years later,… — Walter Pach Copy Share Image
Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Everything cannot… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in… — Niklas Luhmann Copy Share Image
Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate. — Niklas Luhmann Copy Share Image
“Was wir über unsere Gesellschaft, ja über die Welt, in der wir leben, wissen, wissen wir durch die Massenmedien” — Niklas Luhmann 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
