Beautiful Quote by Theophile Gautier

Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such work to…

— John Perry Barlow

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how…

— Walead Beshty

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Can works be made which are not 'of art'?

— Marcel Duchamp

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

— Auguste Rodin

All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.

— Helen Levitt

One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only…

— William-Adolphe Bouguereau

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

— Anonymous

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

— Nick Cave

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind…

— Martin Puryear

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

— Giannina Braschi

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions,…

— David Hume