Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. Votes: 4
Frank Lloyd WrightDancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. Votes: 4
Patrick DuffyFamily is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art. Votes: 3
Wes FeslerThe first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality. Votes: 3
Susanne Katherina LangerMechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. Votes: 3
Walter BenjaminContrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements. Votes: 3
Karl PopperThe work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing. Votes: 3
Anton EhrenzweigThe work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches. Votes: 3
Tony KushnerSomething of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art. Votes: 3
Roger ScrutonAny authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. Votes: 3
Rebecca WestThe picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside. Votes: 3
Kurt SchwittersI cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself Votes: 3
Antonin ArtaudThe work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life. Votes: 3
Raoul VaneigemYou were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations. Votes: 3
Suzy KassemNature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art. Votes: 3
Kafu NagaiThe more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art. Votes: 3
Claire Messudno work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps. Votes: 3
Uta HagenListen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art. Votes: 3
Amy Leigh MercreeEach good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art. Votes: 3
Sri ChinmoyA work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself. Votes: 3
John HustonNo work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. Votes: 3
Oscar WildeA work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken. Votes: 3
Russell ShermanThe house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. Votes: 3
Adolf LoosDiversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. Votes: 3
Oscar WildeNobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it. Votes: 3
Pansy Schneider-HorstA work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. Votes: 3
Vladimir NabokovI search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. Votes: 3
Oscar NiemeyerMarriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art. Votes: 3
Jonathan SacksWhat makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others. Votes: 3
Joseph Gordon-LevittThere is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman. Votes: 3
Patrick KavanaghA work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Votes: 3
Hans HofmannA beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. Votes: 3
Louis NizerTo know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous. Votes: 3
Laura EsquivelEvery genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life. Votes: 3
Richard ForemanThe main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art. Votes: 3
Terence McKennaElizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure, I feel like a work of art. Votes: 3
Mindy KalingEvery work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us. Votes: 3
Lawren HarrisI can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art. Votes: 3
Nick FlynnYes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original. Votes: 3
Lukas FossScreenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art. Votes: 3
Paul SchraderThe supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Votes: 3
James JoyceEvery work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions. Votes: 3
Wassily KandinskyThe work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed. Votes: 3
Auguste RodinWhen you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art. Votes: 3
Jeanne MoreauThe body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art. Votes: 3
Maurice Merleau-PontyTo create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order. Votes: 3
Madeleine L'EngleA work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeIn a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility. Votes: 3
Robert McKeeThe work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. Votes: 3
Oscar WildeThe final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power. Votes: 3
John HerseyFor the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too. Votes: 3
Joyce CaryEvery work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. Votes: 3
Lewis MumfordOne must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art. Votes: 3
Friedrich NietzscheThe satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level. Votes: 3
Jerry GarciaThe true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less. Votes: 3
Albert CamusIn order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul Votes: 3
Albert CamusEvery work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension. Votes: 3
Alejandro JodorowskyYou know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real. Votes: 3
Zack SnyderYou know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.' Votes: 3
Zack SnyderI want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body. Votes: 3
Fernando PessoaTo me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one. Votes: 3
Steven MorrisseyA man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there. Votes: 3
Carl AndreI wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I? Votes: 3
Philip JohnsonTo me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one. Votes: 3
MorrisseyA work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. Votes: 3
Rainer Maria RilkeTo 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
Larry WallArt is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.
Anthony BurgessMy art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.
Marcel DuchampI always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
Damien HirstMovie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.
William HoldenArt, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.
Michael GungorI put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.
Ryan McGinleyArt is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.
Edward WestonProgressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.
Angela DavisAn essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.
Carol BlySeventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.
Lee StrasbergBeijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.
Ai WeiweiWhether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.
Christophe AgouA peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.
Christian Nestell BoveeMost of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.
Patricia PiccininiArt is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.
Eduardo ChillidaI start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.
Jean-Michel BasquiatIf it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more
Seth Godin