Top 1200 Works Of Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

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

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be measured through its music, dance, drama, architecture, visual art and literature. We must give our children knowledge and understanding of civilization's most profound works.

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle.

Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back on content so we can see the thing at all. The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.

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

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

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

To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

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

Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.

Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great works of art rely on the eye of contemplation, the eye of the spirit.

Artists have their existential questions as human beings, and they address these questions in their works. But they are also thinking in a broader sense when they participate in a social and political debate through their works. Often the most important voices of artists in the political and the social debate are focused on originality in their works. We can see this in historical pieces, like "Guernica" by Picasso. "Guernica" was an extremely important manifestation and critique against war, but it was important and powerful because it was also an incredibly original and powerful work of art.

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

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

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

The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

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

Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works of art are more successful than others. Some languish in obscurity and are never heard of again, while others form the foundation of a whole school of art.

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

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.

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

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

Ideas in art may be quite evident, and sometimes they're hidden. Sometimes they're simple, and sometimes they're quite complex. Great works of art can be based on very simple ideas, but it's all in the making, isn't it? It's in the facture.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

I find inspiration for my works of art in my studio and in the squared circle from all sorts of places.

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

When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.

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

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.

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

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

I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is... and by trying to produce these works of art, I feel that I am just showing my appreciation of these creations.

The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not strong enough to appreciate in what the good succeeds. To be without discrimination is to be unable to praise. The critic who lets you know that he always looks for something to like in works he discusses is not telling you anything about the works or about art; he is saying 'see what a nice person I am.

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by being known that it works, it influences, it does its duty, it does good. We must try, then, to be known, aim at it, take means to it. And this without puffing in the process or pride in the success.

There's nothing I love more than admiring the details and embellishments on the works of art that I wear.

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

Andy was a nonverbal person; you couldn't get directions out of him. All he knew was what was modern in art was what wasn't art: The telephone was art, the pizza was art, but what was hanging on walls in museums wasn't art.

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal of technical work has to be done before the great works of violin literature, the sonatas and concertos, may be approached.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."