Works Of Art Quotes

To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.

I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.

All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works of art when he is in fact creating mere kitsch objects.

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.

Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of a close-knit group of initiates. They are the soul food of all people.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.

Beautiful old people are works of art.

Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.

Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work.

It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.

My body is a gradual work of art

Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.

The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.

You too are a work of art.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

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

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

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

We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.

There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.

For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.

The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.

Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.