Works Of Art Quotes - Page 30

• A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

  David Gerrold

  Art, Lice, Acts Of Love

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• There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Suffering, Way

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• Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Art, Perfect

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• The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Art, Technology

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.23, Penguin

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• It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Dream, Art, Love Is

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.327, Macmillan

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• I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my writing, and I think that vulnerability makes people strong. My favorite performances or works of art are always people showing that side of themselves.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Art, Strong, Writing

  Interview with Claire Boucher, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Judging, Creative

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Book, Stressed

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.60, Vintage

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• Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Art, Inspiration

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

  Auguste Rodin

  Photography, Art, Believe

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• Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.

  Clement Greenberg

  Photography, Art, Men

  Clement Greenberg, John O'Brian (1988). “The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949”, p.60, University of Chicago Press

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• Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution, Every little detail plays a part. Having just the vision's no solution, Everything depends on execution, Putting it together, that's what counts.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Art, Play, Vision

  Performing Arts Journal Inc, James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim (1986). “Wordplays 5: An Anthology of New American Drama”, Paj Publication

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• A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

  Wendy Beckett

  Art, Encounters, Changed

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• A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.

  Terry Teachout

  Art, Firsts, Wonder

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• The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

  Russell Sherman

  Art, Fire, Events

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• I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live with," and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.

  Edward Albee

  Art, Responsibility, Thinking

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When contemplating a work of art it is possible to perceive if it has been created according to the eye or to the spirit, in other words, if it projects three-dimensional reality or spiritual n-dimensionality.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Spiritual, Art, Eye

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• When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked women. Women's magazines also feature pictures of naked women. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is lumpy and hairy and should not be seen by the light of day. Men are turned on at the sight of a naked woman's body. Most naked men elicit laughter from women.

  Dave Barry

  Beautiful, Art, Laughter

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• I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.

  Deepak Chopra

  Art, People, Genius

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• If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

  Andre Malraux

  Art, Ifs

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• The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in national competitiveness. There is a moral cost as well. It is an astonishing fact about our species that we understand so much about the history of the universe. the forces that make it tick, the stuff it's made of; the origin of living things, and the machinery of life. A failure to nurture this knowledge shows a philistine indifference to the magnificent achievements humanity is capable of; like allowing a great work of art to molder in a warehouse.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Ignorance, Achievement

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• To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Food, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art?”, p.156, Leo Tolstoy

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• If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Venice, Museums

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art

  Dominique de Menil

  Art, Justice, Silence

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