Art Work Quotes

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.

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

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.

Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art.

The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.

Any work of art dignifies life.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

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

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

The only way to survive is to intently focus on how the art world operates. Once you understand how things work, you can find a solution to the problems you are facing.

I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands. I considered my work more as an applied art for musicians, not as art in and for itself.

Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.

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.

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

My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.

I like art that trusts its audience, that's written for readers who like to work hard. I like art that knows its readers are up to the challenge of interacting with difficult material.

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional.

I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.

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

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

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't

Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

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

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.

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.

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."

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

If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.