Works Of Art Quotes - Page 12

• 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

  Art, Book, Mean

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• When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs talent and expertise. But to be successful in his endeavor, he also needs to have the passionate feeling that he wants, at all costs, to create a work of art which, in his head, constantly demands to be accomplished. The same also applies to developing board games or card games.

  Klaus Teuber

  Art, Writing, Successful

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• I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist like me to think I am a better writer than Cole Porter. I think it is important to realize what my strengths are. I do like to write and I'm not shabby but I don't think I'm the most brilliant writer. I think it would be a shame and sort so egotistical to say I don't need these wonderful writers. These men created works of art and wrote hundreds of beautiful songs. It would be a mistake for me to say at this point in my career that I am so good.

  Michael Buble

  Beautiful, Song, Art

  Interview with Edina Patsy, www.noise11.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Spring, Unique

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• I'm very much against photographs being framed and treated with reverence and signed and sold as works of art. They aren't. They should be seen in a magazine or a book and then be used to wrap up the fish and chucked away.

  Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

  Art, Book, Magazines

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• A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.

  John Heartfield

  Art, Color, Special

  John Heartfield (1977). “Photomontages of the Nazi Period”

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• The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.

  T. J. Clark

  Art, Half, Painting

  T. J. Clark (2015). “The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers”, p.78, Princeton University Press

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• I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own life, and it will come to the artist, the composer or the writer or the painter, and
  say, "Here I am: compose me; or write me; or paint me"; and the job of the artist is to serve the work.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Jobs, Writing

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.106, Open Road Media

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• Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of interpretation. This conflict has the function of breaking down automatism of perception and occurs simultaneously on the many levels of a work of art ... All levels may carry meaning.

  Yuri Lotman

  Art, Two, Poetry

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• A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Propaganda, Intention

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• 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

  Art, Past, Would Be

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• 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

  Sympathy, Art, Dear Ones

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• whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

  Rebecca West

  Art, War, Simple

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”

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• A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Garden, Alternatives

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• Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Loneliness, Infinite

  'Briefe an einem jungen Dichter' (Letters to a Young Poet, 1929) 23 April 1903 (translation by Reginald Snell)

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• The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her unmercifully to find a way to balance, to make herself whole. Every human being has this need: in the artist it is mandatory. Unable to fulfill it, he goes mad. But when the artist is a woman she fulfills it at the expense of herself as a woman.

  May Sarton

  Art, Psychics, Mad

  May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

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• One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.

  Katherine Paterson

  Art, Japan, Important

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Silence, Elements

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.230, Macmillan

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• Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

  Fannie Hurst

  Art, Feels, Creator

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• The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The greatness is in constantly giving back, coming to an acknowledgment of the source. Look back to the source of any individual, any process, any set of materials. If the individual personality can relinquish its insistence on concepts like this is mine, I did it, this is original, nobody else has done it, it goes straight for greatness or the essential spirit.

  Paul Caponigro

  Art, Greatness, Giving

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• 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

  Art, Littles, Postcards

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• I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

  Nick Flynn

  Beautiful, Art, Eye

  "Nick Flynn on Fatherhood, Suicide, Torture, Love, and Being Lost". Interview with Tom Matlack, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 09, 2010.

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• All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Art, Errors, Stupidity

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• A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or his statue of David. Think of a great and enduring novel like Huckleberry Finn or Crime and Punishment. Think of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony or Shakespeare's Henry V. Think of a beautifully designed building, like the masterpieces of Frank Lloyd Wright or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. You can't point to any one single item that makes the whole thing work; it's the entire work-all the pieces working together to create an overall effect-that leads to enduring greatness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Art, Greatness, Thinking

  John C. Maxwell (2003). “Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Art, Reflection, Years

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.91

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