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Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work. — Seth Godin

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

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ... — Susi Moore

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

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. — Charles De Lint

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

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun. — Jack White

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

Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps. — Neil Gaiman

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

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

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

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 have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts. — Franco Zeffirelli

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

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

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. — Andre Gide

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

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

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

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

There's only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation. — Andrew Loomis

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own. — John Ruskin

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

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art. — Vaclav Havel

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

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

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

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

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. — Henry James

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 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 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

When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess. — Noma Bar

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet
it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you. — Joss Whedon

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

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

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

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

No work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps. — Uta Hagen

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

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones. — Jean Dubuffet

There is no release
In a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats

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

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

It is by continuing to put out good work that the artist best shows his gratitude. — Criss Jami

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work — Sol LeWitt

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

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

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art. — Amit Kalantri

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