Works Of Art Quotes - Page 2

• Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Moving, Degrees

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• ...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Doe, Lapses

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1950). “The World as Will and Idea”

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• The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Giving, World

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.567, Vintage

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• A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1203, Delphi Classics

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• It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Family

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 19, 2016

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• The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

  James Joyce

  Art, Spring, Doe

  James Joyce (2016). “JAMES JOYCE Premium Collection: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Chamber Music & Exiles”, p.386, e-artnow

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• Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Happy, Art, Feelings

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.10, Princeton University Press

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• The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Science, Discovery

  "Science and Human Values". Book by Jacob Bronowski, 1956.

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• In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A hymn is a controversial song - sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out...

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Art, Years

  "Show 33 - Revolt of the Fat Angel: American musicians respond to the British invaders, Part 1". Interview on radio documentary series "Pop Chronicles", digital.library.unt.edu. February 14, 1968.

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• A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

  John Marin

  Art, Revelations, Revealing

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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• A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life.

  Lucian Freud

  Art, Spring, Promise

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• Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Children, Past

  Wassily Kandinsky (1983). “Kandinsky, Russia and the Bauhaus, 1912-1932: January 5-Febr Uary 11, 1984”

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• We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality.

  Maurice Denis

  Art, Freedom, Ideas

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• Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Today, Selling

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• Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Children, Delight

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• Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Art, Views, Giving

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• If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and that to achieve unity within a great variety of complexity is a greater achievement and more satisfying piece of art than to achieve unity with just a few elements, which is relatively easily achieved.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Art, Achievement, Unity

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• Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.

  Richard McKenna

  Art, Responsibility, Men

  Richard McKenna (1972). “New eyes for old: nonfiction writings”, John F Blair Pub

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• I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Country, Art, Thinking

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• If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Imagination, World

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  Zack Snyder

  Art, Real, Drawing

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 01, 2007.

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• What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

  Miuccia Prada

  Art, Reality, Interest

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.

  Aristotle

  God, Art, Men

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• The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

  Adolf Loos

  Art, People, House

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• As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

  Richard Louv

  Falling In Love, Art, Children

  Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.9, Algonquin Books

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