Works Of Art Quotes - Page 27

• What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by being known that it works, it influences, it does its duty, it does good. We must try, then, to be known, aim at it, take means to it. And this without puffing in the process or pride in the success.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Art, Mean, Pride

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1991). “Selected Letters”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If the seminary is too large, it ought to be divided into smaller communities with formators who are equipped really to accompany those in their charge. Dialogue must be serious, without fear, sincere. It is important to recall that the language of young people in formation today is different from that in the past: we are living through an epochal change. Formation is a work of art, not a police action. We must form their hearts. Otherwise we are creating little monsters. And then these little monsters mold the People of God. This really gives me goose bumps.

  Pope Francis

  Art, Past, Creating

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• All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Art, Memories, Past

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• There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Discovery, Creative

  Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

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• I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into my photographs beyond a mere recording. Yes, I've chosen the camera position, how I'm going to print the negative, the angel of the lens, what I'm going to include and exclude in the composition, so on and so forth. But, I'm still photographing a work of art, and I would rather leave it to others to comment on my work, as I just left it to you.

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Photography, Art, Angel

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• Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and enjoyable for one reader as the next. But novels and other book-length narratives are great rambling things that always contain some flaws. For works of any length, there comes a point when your continued tinkering won't improve the whole, but will just trade one set of problems for another.

  Bruce Holland Rogers

  Art, Book, Perfect

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• People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.

  Peter Senge

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.14, Random House

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• If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods likes horses and oxen like oxen. Each would represent them with bodies according to the bodies of each. So the Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed; the Thracians give theirs red hair and blue eyes.

  Xenophanes

  Art, Horse, Eye

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• War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams of literature and countless works of art exposing it, when are people going to learn?

  Lisa Simeone

  Art, War, Years

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• If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

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• My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with the understanding that it is a partial revelation and not the perpetuation of the existing. My aim is to show what can be seen within the limits of possibility which exists in the midst of coming into being.

  Yaacov Agam

  Art, Understanding, Limits

  Yaacov Agam, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1980). “Homage to Yaacov Agam: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition, 1980”, Book Sales

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• Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

  Fred Ross

  Art, Aesthetic Beauty, Feelings

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• A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

  Truman Capote

  Art, Design, Magic

  Truman Capote (2013). “Portraits and Observations”, p.385, Modern Library

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• Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyone — in order to know them better, not in order to know something else.

  William H. Gass

  Art, Order, Trying

  "The Artist and Society” by William H. Gass, medium.com. 1968.

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• Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Creative, Needs

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

  Egon Schiele

  Art, Drawing, Erotic

  Egon Schiele (1960). “Egon Shiele: 1890-1918 : [Institute of Contemporary Art Exhibition]”

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• In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Beautiful, Art, Reality

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.108, tredition

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• Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Ideas, Form

  "Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow". Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

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• Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Book, Littles

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• Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Ideas, Needs

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter what form it may finally have it must begin with an idea. It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Ideas, Important

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Mind, May

  Sol LeWitt (2006). “Sol LeWitt wall drawing 1176: seven basic colors and all their combinations in a square within a square : for Josef Albers”, Richter Verlag

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• When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a work of Christian art. But to look at a work of art and then to make a judgment as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous. It is something we cannot know in any conclusive way. We can know only if it speaks within our own hearts, and leads us to living more deeply with Christ in God.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Christian, Art, Book

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.41, Convergent Books

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• Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

  Luis Bunuel

  Art, Essentials, Elements

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• Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, World, Commentary

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

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