Works Of Art Quotes

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A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

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

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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

All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle.

I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

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

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

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

I want to be a living work of art.

The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.

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

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

We're all works of art in progress.

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times...

I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren't perfect.

Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.

Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?

All works of art should begin... at the end.

Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.

They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

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

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

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

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

The personality is a work of art.

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

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.

Leo's goals are works of art.

A race is a work of art.

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

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

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.

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

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

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.