Works Of Art Quotes - Page 28

• There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

  Jerome Bruner

  Art, Real, Effort

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Art, Pistols, Canvas

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• In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Taken, Men

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art?

  Brassai

  Beauty, Art, Men

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• If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. So let's have no talk of temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. I love them all.

  Charles Saatchi

  Baby, Art, Jobs

  Charles Saatchi (2012). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers”, p.59

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• The personality is a work of art.

  Diana Vreeland

  Art, Personality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I'll never see it again.

  Mary Karr

  Art, Ideas, People

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• What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke, a giant computer, a work of art by a Supreme Being or simply an experiment? The problem in trying to understand the universe is that we have nothing to compare it to.

  Heinz Pagels

  Art, Trying, Giants

  Heinz R. Pagels (2012). “The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature”, p.343, Courier Corporation

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• To call a work of art Kitsch is to condemn it for being bad art. But there is a great deal of bad art that we do not condemn as Kitsch. To condemn something as Kitsch is to condemn it on moral grounds.

  Karsten Harries

  Art, Kitsch, Moral

  Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter

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• The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first as erroneous, bad, or foolish. Later it may be seen as obvious, something self-evident to all. Only still later does it receive its final evaluation as a creative contribution. It seems clear no contemporary mortal can satisfactorily evaluate a creative product at the time it is formed, and this statement is increasingly true the greater the novelty of the creation.

  Carl Rogers

  Art, Ideas, Discovery

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• We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Character, Divine

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• I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Believe, Dies

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• If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?

  Mardy Grothe

  Art, Memorable, People

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• All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works of art when he is in fact creating mere kitsch objects.

  Gillo Dorfles

  Art, Believe, Creating

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• Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back on content so we can see the thing at all. The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Real, Cutting

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• No great work of art is ever finished.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Great Work, Finished

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• Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.

  Karl Popper

  Art, Improvement, Theory

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• No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Our World, Doe

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• Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Believe, Pudding

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• In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Expression, Silence

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

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• It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

  Tennessee Williams

  Art, Taken, Play

  Tennessee Williams (1979). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.4, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Kitsch, Imitation

  Theodor W. Adorno, Richard D. Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music: Theodor W. Adorno ; Selected, with Introduction, Commentary, and Notes by Richard Leppert ; New Translations by Susan H. Gillespie”, p.364, Univ of California Press

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• The world of psychology and the world of normal life tends to look down on obsession. It's not good for you, and certainly not good for your relationships. It's not good for a lot of things, but it's the only way to make a work of art.

  Michael Ventura

  Art, Psychology, Looks

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I have to say, doing theater, that's what you're trained to do. Doing film, when I first started doing it, felt like something else entirely. It felt like the difference between, I don't know, waiting tables and painting a great work of art. It's night and day. I didn't feel like it was even acting.

  Viola Davis

  Art, Night, Differences

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren't perfect.

  Bette Midler

  Art, Perfect, Not Interested

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