Works Of Art Quotes - Page 21

• We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Art, Errors, Keys

  "Mastery". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic, www.poemhunter.com.

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• No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.

  Halldór Laxness

  Time, Art, Busy

  Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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• Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Art, Looks

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• Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

  Patrick Duffy

  Art, Dancer, Canvas

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• A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

  Hans Hofmann

  Spiritual, Art, Views

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.63, MIT Press

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• The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.

  Freya Stark

  Life, Change, Art

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.110, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Work, Merit

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• People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

  George Lucas

  Art, Real, Inspiration

  "George Lucas offers a compelling argument against George Lucas" by Sean O'Neal, news.avclub.com. September 1, 2011.

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• In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Creativity, Creative

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.15, Souvenir Press

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• The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Fun, Tests

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• In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter.

  Azar Nafisi

  Art, Betrayal, Lying

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• It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art. There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Art, Fun, Distance

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• I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove... that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Art, People, Wish

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• Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Soul, Individuality

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• A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Humans, Human Beings

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• Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Art, Perspective

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• The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, World, Way

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

  Joan Miro

  Art, Important, Painting

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• I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it. I prefer to steer clear of anything aesthetic, so as not to set obstacles in my own way and not to have the problem of people saying: 'Ah, yes, that's how he sees the world, that's his interpretation.'

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, People, Effort

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless. It demonstrates the endless multiplicity of aspects; it takes away our certainty, because it deprives a thing of its meaning and its name. It shows us the thing in all the manifold significance and infinite variety that preclude the emergence of any single meaning and view.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Views, Names

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• There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Cutting, Short Cuts

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• If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out and that its impact would have been far less. For this sort of reason Stent had argued that a scientific discovery is more akin to a work of art than is generally admitted. Style, he argues, is as important as content. I am not completely convinced by this argument, at least in this case.

  Francis Crick

  Art, Science, Impact

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• It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter or sculptor. ... That proposition does not admit of discussion. It is a product of the intellectual innocence which I think we surgeons may fairly claim to possess, and which is happily not inconsistent with a quite adequate worldly wisdom.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Art, Science, Thinking

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• To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.

  Steven Morrissey

  Art, Giving, Ifs

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