A Work Of Art Quotes

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

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

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

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art. — Nick Flynn

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

He was a drool-worthy, panty-drenching, yummy work of masculine art. — Kelly Moran

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

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible. — Guy Davenport

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

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level. — Jerry Saltz

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

To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous. — Laura Esquivel

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

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

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. — Louis Nizer

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

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless. — Clive Bell

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little. — Sol LeWitt

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 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

A work of art is...a bridge, however tenuous, between one mind and another. — Andrew Harrison

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 work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed. — Wendy Beckett

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen. — Andrew Wyeth

You too are a work of art. — Bernie Siegel

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling. — Caspar David Friedrich

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

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first. — Arthur Schopenhauer

What is it?" Philip said. "I'm creating a work of confectionary art here." "Well, — Wendy Mass

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. — Carl Sagan

Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things. — Richard Schmid

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. — Henry Flynt

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power. — John Hersey

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

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it. — Anthony Burgess

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

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

Any work of art must first of all tell a story. — Robert Frost

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed. — Joan Miro

If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul. — A.D. Posey

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

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. — Carol Bly

A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives. — A.D. Posey

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

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken. — Russell Sherman

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice. — David Gerrold

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it. — Simone Weil

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

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

Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it. — Pansy Schneider-Horst

I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric. — Shea Hembrey

... 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

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

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself. — John Huston

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art. — Fred Ross

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

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree. — Thomas Reid

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art. — Ovid

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

...for, in [William] Morris's words, 'a work of utility might also be a work of art, if we cared to make it so. — Ewan Clayton

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

Only an aching heart
Conceives a changeless work of art. — William Butler Yeats

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

Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years. — Vi Hart

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

A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness. — Robert Genn

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 works because it is true, not because it is real. — Yann Martel

It's far more difficult to disfigure a great work of art than to create one. — Marcel Proust

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

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together. — John Olsen

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

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty. — Bruce Lee

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there. — Carl Andre

If you reshape yourself to fit a mold, then you are no longer an original work of art. — Giuseppe Bianco

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

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. — Vladimir Nabokov

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. — Hans Hofmann

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

Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead. — William H Gass

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

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

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

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive. — Dieter Roth

It is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day. — Kim Chernin