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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time. — Cy Twombly

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

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

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good. — Chuck Close

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

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

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

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

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

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else
that's how you'll get ahead. — Austin Kleon

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

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

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

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

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche. — E.A. Bucchianeri

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle. — Ai Weiwei

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief. — Charles Baudelaire

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people. — Alice Neel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You too are a work of art. — Bernie Siegel

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

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

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art. — Maria Callas

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

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

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

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. — Oscar Wilde