
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
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...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