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My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people. — Colleen McCullough

Works of art create their own rules. — Marty Rubin

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. — Claude Debussy

Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good. — Thomas Sowell

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up. — Victor Hugo

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence. — Niklas Luhmann

People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it. — Aldous Huxley

For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art. — Apolo Ohno

A race is a work of art. — Steve Prefontaine

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art. — Henry David Thoreau

We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art. — Joseph Addison

The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them. — Lawren Harris

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art. — Helen Mirren

Sometimes what's important is dull. Sometimes it's work. Sometimes the important things aren't works of art for your entertainment, X. — David Foster Wallace

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience. — Paul Mellon

The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. — Nathan Fillion

The work of art
acts like another living person
with whom we are conversing. — Anton Ehrenzweig

Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion. — Robert Genn

I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors. — Edward Gordon Craig

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians. — George Lucas

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind? — Erwin McManus

'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks. — Nathan Sawaya

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation. — George Bernard Shaw

All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle. — Julius Meier-Graefe

A puzzle with a solution is a game. A puzzle without a solution is a work of art. — Marty Rubin

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world. — Garry Kasparov

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art. — Terence McKenna

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered. — T. S. Eliot

It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art. — Marshall McLuhan

The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied. — Henry Abbey

We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art. — Chris Bangle

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. — Simone Weil

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. — Leonardo Da Vinci

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part. — Henry David Thoreau

Fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator. — Helen McCloy

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film. — Ken Adam

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it. — William Blake

My body is a gradual work of art — Rick Genest

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure. — Adriana Trigiani

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative. — Tod Machover

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us. — Alain De Botton

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing. — James Frey

A work of art comes only from inside a human being. — Edvard Munch

Can one make works which are not works of 'art'? — Marcel Duchamp

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art. — Man Ray

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art. — Marcel Proust

I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me. — Leonard Lauder

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. — Charles Horton Cooley

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. — Charlie Chaplin

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny. — Pope John Paul II

Every human being is a work of art. — Wolf Vostell

There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there. — Jess Walter

Any work of art dignifies life. — James Ponsoldt

These days any self-respecting exhibition of nude photos has to have pornographically explicit images to prove that they are works of art. — Geoff Dyer

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons. — Ralph Bakshi

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best. — Marcel Proust

I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art. — Egon Schiele

Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man. — Robert M. Pirsig

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

The reader's feedback is the muse for great written works of art. — Sarah Scott

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature. — Sol LeWitt

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself. — Edward Hirsch

References to all works of art, tombs, tunnels, and architecture in Rome are entirely factual — Dan Brown

There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall. — Eva Green

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments. — John Frederick Boyes

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

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art. — Jonathan Sacks

We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses — Aldo Leopold

Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical. — Sol LeWitt

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art. — Paul Schrader

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. — Eugenio Montale

You too are a work of art. — Bernie Siegel

Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in daily fidelity. — Albert Camus

They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. — Michael Heizer

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements. — Jan Tschichold

We're all works of art in progress. — Carmen Dell'Orefice

Every successful work of art is a collaboration between the known and the unknown. — Marty Rubin

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art. — W. H. Auden

No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't — Derek R. Audette

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created. — Billy Joel

Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect. — Jack Schmitt

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy. — Robert Henri

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them. — Rainer Maria Rilke

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology. — Georges Cuvier

Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring. — Marty Rubin

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art. — Luis Bunuel

Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students. — Kerry Washington

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur. — Madame De Stael

I declare peace as the greatest work of art. — Wolf Vostell

But of works of art little can be said.
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"The work of art must seize upon you ... carry you away." — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired. — Terry Eagleton

Works of art are never finished, just stopped. — Peter Greenaway

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. — Clive Bell

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is. — Thomas Hoving