Works Quotes

Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

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.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.

A race is a work of art.

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.

Leo's goals are works of art.

I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

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

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

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

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

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.

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

Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

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.

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

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.

Beautiful old people are works of art.

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

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.

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.

Whatever work we do, our mind should be centered on God.

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.

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

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.

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.

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