Quotes about Work of Art

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. Votes: 4

The work of art is a scream of freedom. Votes: 4

Never judge a work of art by its defects. Votes: 4

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art. Votes: 4

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. Votes: 4

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. Votes: 4

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Votes: 4

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience. Votes: 4

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. Votes: 4

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. Votes: 4

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art. Votes: 4

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. Votes: 4

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. Votes: 4

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. Votes: 4

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity. Votes: 4

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. Votes: 4

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. Votes: 4

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. Votes: 4

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level. Votes: 4

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. Votes: 4

You are a work of art. Votes: 3

Any work of art dignifies life. Votes: 3

A race is a work of art. Votes: 3

You too are a work of art. Votes: 3

A work of art is a confession. Votes: 3

Every work of art is about everything. Votes: 3

A work of art is an exaggeration. Votes: 3

Every work of art changes its predecessors. Votes: 3

The personality is a work of art. Votes: 3

Any genuine work of art generates new work. Votes: 3

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile. Votes: 3

My body is a gradual work of art Votes: 3

No great work of art is ever finished. Votes: 3

Every human being is a work of art. Votes: 3

I declare peace as the greatest work of art. Votes: 3

Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality. Votes: 3

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence. Votes: 3

The human body is the best work of art. Votes: 3

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care. Votes: 3

A game of rugby is a work of art! Votes: 3

A work of art doesn't have to be explained, Votes: 3

I want to be a living work of art Votes: 3

The work of art is a scream of freedom. Votes: 3

Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling. Votes: 3

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art. Votes: 3

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism. Votes: 3

What the work of art looks like isn't too important. Votes: 3

only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art. Votes: 3

In every work of art, the artist himself is present. Votes: 3

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime. Votes: 3

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art. Votes: 3

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea. Votes: 3

A work of art is a renewable source of energy. Votes: 3

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away." Votes: 3

To create a work of art is to create the world. Votes: 3

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned. Votes: 3

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. Votes: 3

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. Votes: 3

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle. Votes: 3

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails. Votes: 3

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle. Votes: 3

Any work of art must first of all tell a story. Votes: 3

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art. Votes: 3

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art. Votes: 3

The line has almost become a work of art in itself. Votes: 3

The work of art is above all a process of creation. Votes: 3

A work of art comes only from inside a human being. Votes: 3

There is no work of art that is without short cuts. Votes: 3

A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention. Votes: 3

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste. Votes: 3

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas. Votes: 3

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind? Votes: 3

Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art. Votes: 3

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art. Votes: 3

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future. Votes: 3

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. Votes: 3

The translation called good has original value as a work of art. Votes: 3

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol. Votes: 3

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is. Votes: 3

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art. Votes: 3

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. Votes: 3

My life is a work of art and nature is my temple! Votes: 3

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself. Votes: 3

You are both a work of art and an artist at work. Votes: 3

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art. Votes: 3

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it. Votes: 3

A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness. Votes: 3

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. Votes: 3

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art. Votes: 3

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible. Votes: 3

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality. Votes: 3

Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. Votes: 3

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. Votes: 3

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences. Votes: 3

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.... Votes: 3

Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement... Votes: 3

Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements. Votes: 3

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances. Votes: 3

You must build your life as if it were a work of art. Votes: 3

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice. Votes: 3

Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art Votes: 3

In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order. Votes: 3

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art. Votes: 3

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art, Votes: 3

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art. Votes: 3

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art Votes: 3

A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing. Votes: 3

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. Votes: 3

I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life. Votes: 3

The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing. Votes: 3

I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery. Votes: 3

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches. Votes: 3

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. Votes: 3

It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art. Votes: 3

Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective. Votes: 3

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. Votes: 3

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make. Votes: 3

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real. Votes: 3

Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art. Votes: 3

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. Votes: 3

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside. Votes: 3

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself Votes: 3

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life. Votes: 3

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist. Votes: 3

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. Votes: 3

As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks Votes: 3

A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it... Votes: 3

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art. Votes: 3

A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it. Votes: 3

To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules. Votes: 3

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little. Votes: 3

You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations. Votes: 3

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art. Votes: 3

No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art. Votes: 3

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art. Votes: 3

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps. Votes: 3

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do... Votes: 3

Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art. Votes: 3

Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art. Votes: 3

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself. Votes: 3

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. Votes: 3

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken. Votes: 3

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about. Votes: 3

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it. Votes: 3

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. Votes: 3

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. Votes: 3

Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it. Votes: 3

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets. Votes: 3

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. Votes: 3

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art. Votes: 3

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. Votes: 3

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art. Votes: 3

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others. Votes: 3

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman. Votes: 3

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Votes: 3

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. Votes: 3

Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life. Votes: 3

A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast. Votes: 3

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed. Votes: 3

To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous. Votes: 3

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun. Votes: 3

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life. Votes: 3

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art Votes: 3

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art. Votes: 3

Elizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure, I feel like a work of art. Votes: 3

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us. Votes: 3

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art. Votes: 3

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator. Votes: 3

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original. Votes: 3

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art. Votes: 3

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art. Votes: 3

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred. Votes: 3

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Votes: 3

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions. Votes: 3

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed. Votes: 3

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor. Votes: 3

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art. Votes: 3

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art. Votes: 3

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology. Votes: 3

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity. Votes: 3

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order. Votes: 3

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. Votes: 3

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist." Votes: 3

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it. Votes: 3

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington Votes: 3

The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing Votes: 3

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. Votes: 3

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. Votes: 3

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality. Votes: 3

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. Votes: 3

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility. Votes: 3

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. Votes: 3

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power. Votes: 3

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too. Votes: 3

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. Votes: 3

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art. Votes: 3

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level. Votes: 3

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less. Votes: 3

Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art. Votes: 3

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed. Votes: 3

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul Votes: 3

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere. Votes: 3

I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself. Votes: 3

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. Votes: 3

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. Votes: 3

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on. Votes: 3

Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product. Votes: 3

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art. Votes: 3

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured. Votes: 3

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself. Votes: 3

Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. Votes: 3

Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension. Votes: 3

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real. Votes: 3

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.' Votes: 3

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal. Votes: 3

In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color. Votes: 3

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Votes: 3

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration. Votes: 3

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body. Votes: 3

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one. Votes: 3

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated. Votes: 3

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it. Votes: 3

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there. Votes: 3

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist. Votes: 3

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I? Votes: 3

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one. Votes: 3

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one. Votes: 3

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. Votes: 3

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art. Votes: 3

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art. Votes: 3

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. Votes: 3

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. Votes: 3

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability. Votes: 3

Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system. Votes: 3

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. Votes: 3

Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation. Votes: 3

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies. Votes: 3

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you... Votes: 3

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. Votes: 3

The Aston Martin is a beautiful car. It's a work of art, I love the interior and the style of the car. Votes: 3

When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart. Votes: 3

The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity. Votes: 3

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. Votes: 3

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition. Votes: 3

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak. Votes: 3

You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with. Votes: 3

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world. Votes: 3

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems. Votes: 3

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life. Votes: 3

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art. Votes: 3

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract. Votes: 3

A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art. Votes: 3

A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind. Votes: 3

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers. Votes: 3

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being. Votes: 3

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce. Votes: 3

It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into being... Votes: 3

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself? Votes: 3

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation. Votes: 3

To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order. Votes: 3

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. Votes: 3

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued. Votes: 3

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love. Votes: 3

The work of art ... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty. Votes: 3

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive. Votes: 3

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art. Votes: 3

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. Votes: 3

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging! Votes: 3

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie. Votes: 3

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis. Votes: 3

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. Votes: 3

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter... Votes: 3

Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years. Votes: 3

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be. Votes: 3

Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination. Votes: 3

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art. Votes: 3

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art. Votes: 3

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work. Votes: 3

There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art. Votes: 3

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art. Votes: 3

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle. Votes: 3

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good. Votes: 3

To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely. Votes: 3

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. Votes: 3

No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy. Votes: 3

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched. Votes: 3

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft. Votes: 3

If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great. Votes: 3

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless. Votes: 3

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art. Votes: 3

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed. Votes: 3

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience. Votes: 3

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.' Votes: 3

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation Votes: 3

A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction. Votes: 3

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all. Votes: 3

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image. Votes: 3

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character. Votes: 3

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book. Votes: 3

A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created. Votes: 3

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. Votes: 3

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably. Votes: 3

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting. Votes: 3

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. Votes: 3

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down. Votes: 3

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card Votes: 3

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious. Votes: 3

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art. Votes: 3

The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding. Votes: 3

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. Votes: 3

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever. Votes: 3

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. Votes: 3

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones. Votes: 3

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. Votes: 3

All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself. Votes: 3

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back. Votes: 3

All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it. Votes: 3

Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work of art preserve its life. Votes: 3

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable. Votes: 3

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me. Votes: 3

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding. Votes: 3

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 they are infinitely rewarding. Votes: 3

Each one of us is God's special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts all those who view our lives. Votes: 3

A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy. Votes: 3

Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love. Votes: 3

The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art. Votes: 3

You can make your life into a grand ever-evolving work of art. The key is your thoughts, the wonderous invisible part of you that is your spiritual soul. Votes: 3

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art." Votes: 3

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand. Votes: 3

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it. Votes: 3

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art. Votes: 3

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art. Votes: 3

A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline. Votes: 3

Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family. Votes: 3

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules. Votes: 3

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art. Votes: 3

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art. Votes: 3

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all. Votes: 3

Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that is our life, our personal masterpiece. Votes: 3

I don't want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art. Votes: 3

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try. Votes: 3

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not. Votes: 3

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world. Votes: 3

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era. Votes: 3

W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you. Votes: 3

I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric. Votes: 3

Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art. Votes: 3

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought. Votes: 3

Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast. Votes: 3

A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man. Votes: 3

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. Votes: 3

Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy. Votes: 3

it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day. Votes: 3

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind. Votes: 3

These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze. Votes: 3

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. Votes: 3

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art. Votes: 3

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art. Votes: 3

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling. Votes: 3

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech. Votes: 3

The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces. Votes: 3

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece. Votes: 3

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. Votes: 3

to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous. Votes: 3

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. Votes: 3

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. Votes: 3

You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work. Votes: 3

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art. Votes: 3

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist. Votes: 3

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art. Votes: 3

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance. Votes: 3

A perfect work of art is not the one that has no mistakes. It is the one people will like. Creation is not perfect but god is praised for having created it Votes: 3

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again. Votes: 3

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. Votes: 3

...The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries... Votes: 3

Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart? Votes: 3

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. Votes: 3

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art. Votes: 3

Kurosawa was one of film's true greats... His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. So it seemed appropriate to name the new digital studio for him. Votes: 3

The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. Votes: 3

Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art Votes: 3

Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and she gets life on the page in new, startling ways. Votes: 3

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test. Votes: 3

The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification. Votes: 3

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure. Votes: 3

I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced. Votes: 3

Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise. Votes: 3

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell. Votes: 3

While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done. Votes: 3

The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by distortion of the natural form. For, therein is nature reborn. Votes: 3

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art. Votes: 3

For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif. Votes: 3

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. Votes: 3

The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing. Votes: 3

In the largest sense, every work of art is protest. ... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it. ... A hymn is a controversial song - sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out. ... Votes: 3

She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he did, but in the end the body won't hold up as a work of art. Votes: 3

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral. Votes: 3

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated. Votes: 3

In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development. Votes: 3

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made." Votes: 3

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. Votes: 3

There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it - because it's a memory. A great wine for me is a memory, it's an extraordinary experience. Votes: 3

What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context. Votes: 3

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu. Votes: 3

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made. Votes: 3

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now. Votes: 3

Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them to new meanings,--and one often regrets having an alphabet familiar to too many half-lettered persons. Votes: 3

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art. Votes: 3

I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art. Votes: 3

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense. Votes: 3

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love. Votes: 3

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind. Votes: 3

A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment. Votes: 3

There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better. Votes: 3

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic esthetic limitation on what can be done with cities: a city cannot be a work of art. Votes: 3

The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's hidden hand that holds the mirror up, the impersonal mechanism by means of which matter makes its perfection manifest. Votes: 3

It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that. Votes: 3

No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth. Votes: 3

Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle. Votes: 3

It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require. Votes: 3

The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us. Votes: 3

What is this', and 'How is this done?' are the first two questions to ask of any work of art. The second question immediately illuminates the first, but it often doesn't get asked. Perhaps it sounds too technical. Perhaps it sounds pedestrian. Votes: 3

...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies. Votes: 3

The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance. Votes: 3

First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something. Votes: 3

It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best. Votes: 3

I love Monet: his 'Water Lilies' would look great on my wall. But would I prefer to see money helping kids get better from cancer rather than spending it on a work of art for my own personal indulgence? Yes, I probably would. Votes: 3

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman. Votes: 3

Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by the tribulations of doubt, all that remains is a monster who is to art what a fanatic is to faith. Votes: 3

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project." Votes: 3

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project. Votes: 3

For what it's worth, I think perfect love stories have perfect disasters hidden somewhere. If a genuine relationship comes out of two people screwing before they saw the potential of the 'relationship'? Its perfect, beautiful, a work of art in fact.. Normal is overrated. Votes: 3

A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger." pg. 287 Votes: 3

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. Votes: 3

Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it. Votes: 3

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession. Votes: 3

Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa. Votes: 3

The Bible states in Psalms 139:14 that you are fearfully and wonderfully made and that you are a wonderful work of art. That makes you uniquely special. It only makes sense for you to just be the special you that you were created to be period. Votes: 3

I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of art. But I don't think a work of art can actively reject the person who's looking at it or reading it. Votes: 3

The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene orderliness of imagined reality, give a special tense dazzle and an atmosphere of tour de force to any photographs that succeed in the search. Votes: 3

People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning. Votes: 3

The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being. Votes: 3

I love vintage clothes. But they don't love me very much. It is difficult to find anything that fits me because of my height, but if I do fall in love with something, I'll buy it and display it like a work of art at home. Votes: 3

It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art. Votes: 3

My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is a work of art, after all, and I'd like to honor that gift and pass it on for someone else to appreciate. Votes: 3

Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made. Votes: 3

If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured. Votes: 3

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day. Votes: 3

A work of art enters life very much like another human being - complicated, loaded with overtones and meaning, mysterious, enticing, obsessive, and beautiful. There's no way to control how it will be used, how it will be read, and that's part of the excitement of it. Votes: 3

I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker... But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art. Votes: 3

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. Votes: 3

A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations. Votes: 3

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. Votes: 3

No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer. Votes: 3

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it. Votes: 3

The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art. Votes: 3

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art. Votes: 3

You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy. Votes: 3

Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece. Votes: 3

The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort. Votes: 3

Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator. Votes: 3

Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. Votes: 3

REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose Votes: 3

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable. Votes: 3

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art. Votes: 3

Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. Votes: 3

Live with the consequences of your deeds and enjoy the warmth they create. The only warmth in the cold, indifferent universe is that which we create ourselves. And that is what a work of art is, it is what a constructed life is, a fulfilled life, the warmth of acts. Votes: 3

Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things. Votes: 3

Design has to work. Art does not. Votes: 0

Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind. Votes: 0

The life I live is my art work. Votes: 0

Politics is the art of making civilization work. Votes: 0

It is difficult to make political art work. Votes: 0

Work your craft; until it becomes an art from. Votes: 0

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you. Votes: 0

The man, the art, the work--it is all one. Votes: 0

Art is right reason in the doing of work. Votes: 0

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art. Votes: 0

I don't like watching people work if they're making art. Votes: 0

Art is the path of the creator to his work. Votes: 0

The art of love is God at work through you. Votes: 0

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work. Votes: 0

Don't think of it as art, think of it as work. Votes: 0

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools. Votes: 0

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining. Votes: 0

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work. Votes: 0

To appreciate art you've got to work at it a bit. Votes: 0

The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art. Votes: 0

If you want to work on your art, work on your life. Votes: 0

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. Votes: 0

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work. Votes: 0

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art. Votes: 0

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function. Votes: 0

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious. Votes: 0

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. Votes: 0

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work. Votes: 0

Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work Votes: 0

Work is the passionate energy you put into the art that defines you Votes: 0

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work. Votes: 0

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief. Votes: 0