A Quote by Claude Debussy

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

Claude Debussy

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Claude Debussy
French - Composer
August 22, 1862 - March 25, 1918

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

Claude Debussy

There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; and?there ismore beauty inthe works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.

Joseph Addison

I think that the essence of being an artist is to break rules. You have to learn rules, and you have to break them, because if you make art only by the rules, then you make very boring art.

Johann Johannsson

A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

Edgard Varese

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

Edward Hirsch

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

Harold Rosenberg

Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.

Donald Hall

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

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Rick Wakeman

Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?

Marcel Duchamp

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.

Susan Sontag

Let me be absolutely clear: I think it is defeatist to sort of say we want to leave the European Union. We're going to try and change the rules and change the way it works and change the objectives that it has in order to make it something that works for Britain.

Philip Hammond

When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.