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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
No great work of art is ever finished.
— Michelangelo
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
The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.
— Niklas Luhmann
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
Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.
— Jacob Bronowski
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
— Robert McKee
Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art.
— Sri Chinmoy
Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.
— Seth Godin
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
— Miuccia Prada
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
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
— John Ruskin
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
— Hippolyte Taine
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.
— Wassily Kandinsky
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 only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
— Jean Cocteau
I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.
— Franco Zeffirelli
I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.
— Molly Crabapple
So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.
— Edward Hopper
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
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There's only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.
— Andrew Loomis
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
Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.
— Edouard Manet
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.
— Kazimir Malevich
Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer.
— Kenneth Anger
Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.
— Robert Crumb
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 proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.
— Huston Smith
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
Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead.
— William H Gass
Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.
— Edith Wharton
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
— Hans Hofmann
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Art is right reason in the doing of work.
— Thomas Aquinas
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
— Carl Andre
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
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
— Jonathan Sacks
There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.
— Heinrich Heine
Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.
— Anthony Burgess
Art is long. If we work for ourselves of course we must hurry. If we work for her we must often pause.
— Henry James
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
— E. M. Forster
The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.
— John Hersey
Art is the path of the creator to his work.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
What you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations
— Kurt Vonnegut
There is no releaseIn a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats
Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.
— Peter Gabriel
Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.
— Robert Bateman
There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
— Charles Baudelaire
This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
— Robert Rauschenberg
A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.
— Simone Weil
A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.
— David Gerrold
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
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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
Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.
— Amit Kalantri
