Works Of Art Quotes - Page 20

• The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate a work of art, we must bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its affairs and ideas, no familiarity with its emotions.

  Clive Bell

  Appreciation, Art, Ideas

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• Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital.

  Albert C. Barnes

  Appreciation, Art, Effort

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• The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.

  William Beebe

  Art, Inspiration, Hard Work

  "The Bird: Its Form and Function". Book by William Beebe, 1906.

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• All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle.

  Julius Meier-Graefe

  Art, Struggle, Trophies

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• We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

  Federico Fellini

  Life, Art, Passion

  "Fictional character: Steiner". "La Dolce Vita", 1960.

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• The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Dance, Art

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• I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

  Jennifer Egan

  Life, Art, Flames

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.98, Anchor

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• No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.

  William Goldman

  Dream, Art, Lucky

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.84, A&C Black

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• From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

  Michel Foucault

  Art, Thinking, Self

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• We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

  Lana Del Rey

  Art, Gains, Nothing To Lose

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• When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Stars, Confused

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• I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Art, Thinking, Ifs

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• If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

  Jodi Picoult

  Art, Circles, Imagination

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.459, Simon and Schuster

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• In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

  Novalis

  Art, Order, Veils

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• Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Mother, Art, Time

  1912 Concerning the Spiritual in Art.

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• Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.

  William Gaddis

  Art, Creating, Feelings

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• He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely transcended the everyday. And this would annihilate the effects of the cruel drug, boredom, to which he was addicted although, perhaps, the element of boredom which is implicit in an affair so isolated from the real world was its principle appeal for him.

  Angela Carter

  Art, Real, Order

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clouds? From Jesus Christ to Elvis Presley, every culture tells us of high-flying bird men who zoom around the world creating magnificent works of art and choosing willing followers to share in the eternal glory from beyond the stars. Can all these related phenomena merely be dismissed as coincidence?

  Erich von Däniken

  Jesus, Art, Stars

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• After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.

  Alex Scarrow

  Art, Real, Mind

  "TimeRiders: The Eternal War". Book by Alex Scarrow, July 14, 2011.

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• Kaldar smiled at her. Now there was a work of art. If she were just a girl and he were just a man, and they met at a party, that smile would've guaranteed him a date. The man was hot. There was no doubt. But right now, all it would get him was a solid punch in those even teeth. Audrey laughed. "Aren't you sweet? Tell me, do girls usually throw their panties at you when you do that?" He grinned wider, and she glimpsed the funny evil spark in his eyes. "Do men throw money when you do your little Southern belle?

  Ilona Andrews

  Girl, Sweet, Art

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.103, NYLA

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• Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Art, Future, Two

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• Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me - the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.

  Anais Nin

  Country, Art, War

  "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

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• I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, Self Love, Experiments

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.

  Scott Lynch

  Art, Men, Mirrors

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.675, Del Rey

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Art, Book, Details

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