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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
— Erykah Badu
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
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
It's good to vandalize one's own work.
— John P. Sousa
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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
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
When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.
— Gillian Wearing
So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.
— Edward Hopper
Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
— Robert Frost
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.
— Carol Bly
The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.
— John Hersey
Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.
— Amit Kalantri
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
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
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
— Abbas Kiarostami
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
What you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations
— Kurt Vonnegut
Art is long. If we work for ourselves of course we must hurry. If we work for her we must often pause.
— Henry James
My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.
— Sufjan Stevens
Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.
— Stephen Kinzer
Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it.
— Pansy Schneider-Horst
Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.
— Pablo Casals
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 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
If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.
— A.D. Posey
I have the belief that a person and his art should have one direction; your work should be a synonym for your person - the two shouldn't be separate.
— Zhang Xiaogang
You know how writers are ... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.
— Orson Scott Card
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
Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.
— Caspar David Friedrich
We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses
— Aldo Leopold
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
You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
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
One great work of art inspired by another.
— Dan Brown
I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it.
— Mary Robinette Kowal
The goal of all your hard work should be to make your reality everyone else's fantasy land.
— Martyn Rooney
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
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
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
The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
— Charles Baudelaire
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
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Art is the path of the creator to his work.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
There's only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.
— Andrew Loomis
I don't like watching people work if they're making art.
— David Duchovny
If we want less and less, we may in fact receive more and more of what we need. It may work like that.
— Art Hochberg
You too are a work of art.
— Bernie Siegel
I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.
— Maria Callas
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
I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are.
— Laird Barron
