Works Of Art Quotes - Page 25

• A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.

  Margaret Fuller

  Beauty, Art, Interesting

  Margaret Fuller (1860). “At Home and Abroad, Or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe”, p.199

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• Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book ‘Art as Experience,’ you can’t separate experience from the work of art. So, if I write for the symphony today, you’re listening to everything that’s happened to me since I was 18 years old.

  Yusef Lateef

  Art, Book, Writing

  Yusef Lateef, Herb Boyd (2006). “The Gentle Giant: The Autobiography of Yusef Lateef”, p.176, morton books, inc

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• Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Art, Fidelity

  "From Optimism to Hope". Book by Jonathan Sacks, 2004.

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• I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of art such as Garden State go untouched is beyond me. It just proves how close-minded America really is, and I refuse to take part in it.

  Zach Braff

  Baby, Art, Winning

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• If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Laughter, Tears

  Vincent Price (2016). “I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography”, p.270, Open Road Media

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• Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to glorify, to dignify man... Since any social system is forced to change to another by concrete economic forces, its art changes also to be recharged, reshaped, and revitalized by the new conditions... The making of a genuine artist or writer is not mysterious. It is not
  the work of Divine Providence. Social conditions, history, and the people's struggle are the factors behind it.

  Carlos Bulosan

  Art, Believe, Struggle

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• We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

  Clive Bell

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

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• A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Air, Rose

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• A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Appreciate

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Real, Unique

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.270, University of Chicago Press

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• There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Ends, Insight

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• The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

  J. Paul Getty

  Art, Real, Generations

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• The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Responsibility, Men

  "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death" by Albert Camus, "The Artist and His Time", 1960.

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• The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Literature, Modern

  Herbert Read (1971). “The Philosophy of Modern Art: Collected Essays”, Books for Libraries

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• You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Energy, Portraits

  "Marina Abramovic Talks 'The Artist is Present,' Her Thoughts On Censorship, Art & More". Interview with Cristopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Crime, Uncommitted

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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• All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Believe, Simple

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• All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.

  John Banville

  Art, People, Littles

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• What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish it from . . . pure commodities? A work of art is a gift, not a commodity. . . works of art exist simultaneously in two “economies”, a market economy and a gift economy.  Only one of these is essential, however: a work of art can survive without the market, but where there is no gift, there is no art.

  Lewis Hyde

  Art, Two, Essentials

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• Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Art, Order, Law

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• A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Men, Mountain

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• Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and though she may well admire his marvelous works of art in museums she herself will rarely create, only copy.

  Esther Vilar

  Art, Book, Men

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• A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

  Guy Davenport

  Art, Form, Force

  Guy Davenport (2015). “Every Force Evolves a Form: Twenty Essays”, p.5, Open Road Media

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• The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses. A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

  Carson McCullers

  Dream, Art, Struggle

  Carson McCullers (1975). “The mortgaged heart”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

  A. R. Ammons

  Art, Mean, Self

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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