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I believe that any great work of art is, in itself, a form of resistance against a sense of powerlessness.
— Thom Yorke
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
— Damien Hirst
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.
— Andre Maurois
What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Every shift is a work of art.
— Herta Muller
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter ... one must paint its atmosphere.
— Umberto Boccioni
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
— Robert McKee
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.
— Steven Pressfield
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.
— Constantin Brancusi
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
— Miuccia Prada
A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life.
— Margaret Walker
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.
— Gustave Flaubert
I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.
— Maurizio Cattelan
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
— Hippolyte Taine
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.
— George A. Sheehan
I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.
— Barbara Goldsmith
The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.
— Stanley Kubrick
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
— E. M. Forster
It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.
— Marshall McLuhan
A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.
— Susan Sontag
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of my work.
— Giorgio Moroder
The story tells us that living the life of an artist is not as useful as living our lives as a work of art.
— Martin Prechtel
Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?
— Mahatma Gandhi
With you, it's... I don't even know how to say it. It's like you're a work of art. Every time I'm with you, I see something new. Something beautiful.
— Lisa Brown Roberts
Only an aching heartConceives a changeless work of art. — William Butler Yeats
The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.
— Huston Smith
Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.
— Edith Wharton
Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead.
— William H Gass
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— Ewan Clayton
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.
— Henry David Thoreau
You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.
— Bill Viola
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.
— Julia Cameron
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
— Hans Hofmann
Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
— Jonathan Sacks
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you reshape yourself to fit a mold, then you are no longer an original work of art.
— Giuseppe Bianco
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
— Carl Andre
One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
You too are a work of art.
— Bernie Siegel
Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.
— Anthony Burgess
Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.
— Paul Schrader
The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.
— John Hersey
Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
— Friedrich Von Schlegel
Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.
— Caspar David Friedrich
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
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.
— Susan Sontag
I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it.
— Mary Robinette Kowal
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
— Steve Prefontaine
The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity.
— Ferdinand Hodler
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 ...
— Henri Matisse
A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.
— Simone Weil
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.
— Edward G. Robinson
Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.
— Fred Ross
Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
— Andy Goldsworthy
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.
— V.S. Pritchett
... what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago, part invention.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it.
— Pansy Schneider-Horst
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
— Robert Smithson
This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
— Robert Rauschenberg
A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.
— David Gerrold
A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.
— Russell Sherman
The work of art is a pyramid which stands in the desert, uselessly: jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it;
— Julian Barnes
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.
— Carol Bly
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.
— Shinichi Suzuki
If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.
— A.D. Posey
Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
— Robert Frost
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
— Abbas Kiarostami