Works Of Art Quotes

Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of 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.

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

Any work of art dignifies life.

I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

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

Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists.

Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better remain unwritten. They would at least never become works of art.

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

Every work of art changes its predecessors.

Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being.

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

More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.

Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.

But of works of art little can be said.

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

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

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

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

Great literary works are not measured by the number of words, but by the impact they create.