A Quote by Diana Vreeland

The personality is a work of art.

Diana Vreeland

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Diana Vreeland
American - Editor
July 29, 1906 - August 22, 1989

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

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

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.

Lukas Foss

I would say that I have an aspect of my personality which is that I have no personality. That's why I work as an agent. I have the assumed personality of the people I represent. I am like a sponge.

Andrew Wylie

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

Susan Sontag

'Parsifal' is one of the great examples in art of a work that transcends the personality of the man who wrote it.

Simon Rattle

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

Oscar Wilde

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.

Mervyn Levy

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

Ernest Becker

In preindustrial times, the idea of creating something was more related to your personality. Personality was something that you constructed; it's something you had to actively develop and work on. Now personality is something that you have.

Tino Sehgal

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality, which I think is right. We know that Velázquez embezzled money from the Spanish court and wanted power and so on, but you can't see this in his art.

Lucian Freud

What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish it from . . . pure commodities? A work of art is a gift, not a commodity. . . works of art exist simultaneously in two “economies”, a market economy and a gift economy. Only one of these is essential, however: a work of art can survive without the market, but where there is no gift, there is no art.

Lewis Hyde

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

Bennie Wallace

People don't buy and sell art based on the personality of the artist. Or there wouldn't be much art bought and sold.

David L. Wolper

art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can only become art, when it is part of the past. In this normative sense, a 'contemporary' work of art would be a contradiction - except so far as we can, in the present, assimilate the present to the past.

Susan Sontag

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

Henri Bergson

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