Works Of Art Quotes - Page 23

• Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Inspirational, Teacher, Art

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

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• There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Overcoming, Doe

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• Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.

  Mark Helprin

  Art, Differences, Kentucky

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• A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, World, Emotion

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.59, MIT Press

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• Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Men, Europe

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Thinking, Littles

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.236, Transaction Publishers

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• A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Art, Travel, Adventure

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• I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.

  Jewel

  Art, Mean, Trying

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

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Art, Anger, Order

  Charles Horton Cooley (2015). “Life and the Student: Roadside Notes on Human Nature, Society, and Letters”, p.61, Transaction Publishers

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• Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Sentimental, Emotion

  Jean Cocteau (1926). “A call to order: written between the years 1918 and 1926 and including Cock and harlequin, Professional secrets, and other critical essays”, Haskell House Pub Ltd

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• Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Mean, Order

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• The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

  Max Beerbohm

  Wise, Art, Work

  "Lytton Strachey". Book by Max Beerbohm, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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• A work of art is a work of order, and if the artist is to put the stamp of his own mind on his work, he must arrange, modify, and dispose of his materials so that they may appear in a more agreeable and beautiful manner than they would have assumed without his interference.

  Henry Peach Robinson

  Beautiful, Art, Order

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• I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Mean, Opportunity

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• Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks, to draw [one] towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his consciousness in a truth immediate, rare, enormous, and perfect. If a work of art succeeds in this undertaking even for a single moment, it attains its goal.

  Iannis Xenakis

  Art, Single Mom, Mean

  Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.1, Pendragon Press

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• The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Art, Men, Intellectual

  "Philosophy of Art". Book by Hippolyte Taine, 1865.

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• The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist.  The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . .  Fear is what blocks an artist.  The fear of not being good enough.  The fear of not finishing.  The fear of failure and of success.  The fear of beginning at all.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Block, Finishing

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• When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does not matter. The word 'sannyas' does not matter; what matters is the content.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Art, Creativity

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• A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Hipster, Needs

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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• I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Beautiful, Art, Real

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• When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

  Billy Joel

  Art, Portraits, Looks

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• I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Book, Playing Games

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

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• A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Running, Art

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• The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

  David Rockefeller

  Art, Past, Done

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

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• Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

  Richard Roeper

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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