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• The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student of human nature, to pay attention to his experience, to understand the nature of experience itself. By delving into raw experience and distilling it into a work of art, the writer is engaging in the heart and soul of philosophy - making sense out of life.

  Georg Buhler

  Life, Art, Powerful

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• Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

  Diego Rivera

  Art, Taste, Standards

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• Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide hitherto unavailable insights.... Notice that, although originality is a necessary condition of high aesthetic value, it is far from a sufficient condition. Many original works have little or no aesthetic value. An artwork may present a novel but uninteresting perspective, or one that is original but wrong.

  James Young

  Art, Perspective, Principles

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• The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Yield, May

  "Collected Poems". Book by Herbert Read, 1926.

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• I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.

  Gunther Schuller

  Art, Interesting, Musical

  "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

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• Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Historical, Mysterious

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.

  Andre Breton

  Running, Art, Ifs

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• A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Feelings, Ifs

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• A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Art, Giving, Able

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• The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

  Claire Messud

  Art, Human Experience, Humans

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• I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Men, Space

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• Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although the lay public considers mathematical equations to be rather opaque, to a scientist an equation is very much like a movement in a larger symphony. Simplicity. Elegance. These are the qualities that have inspired some of the greatest artists to create their masterpieces, and they are precisely the same qualities that motivate scientists to search for the laws of nature. LIke a work of art or a haunting poem, equations have a beauty and rhythm all their own.

  Michio Kaku

  Art, Passion, Mathematical Equations

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You too are a work of art.

  Bernie Siegel

  Art, Self Esteem

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• The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Spiritual, Art, Secret

  Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the truer view is that the interpretative artist can only make his own comment upon the work.

  Tyrone Guthrie

  Art, Attitude, Views

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• With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.

  Joseph Raffael

  Art, Moving, Blood

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• So now, how did God produce this world?... The fable is that he breathed upon us. In his breath, his wind, came moisture and things began to grow... a message of hope. Nothing physical. How do you intend for your breath to become a work of art? The only way I can see it is that you prevent your breath from becoming a structure. As soon as your breath takes on the form of a room, you are a carpenter; you're not God.

  Milton Resnick

  Art, Wind, Moisture

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• I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in their fusion to achieve a 'wholeness' or 'oneness,' the experiencing of which should be revelatory - both for the artist and the spectator - something akin to the experience of enlightenment in terms of religion.

  Douglas Portway

  Art, Believe, Opposites

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• Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political force simply through the faithful representation of the spirit. It is a political act to create an image of the self or of the collective.

  Lewis Hyde

  Art, Self, Political

  Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.258, Vintage

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• I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.

  Paterson Ewen

  Art, Believe, Faces

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• Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

  Ted Godwin

  Art, Mind, Landscape

  Ted Godwin, Luther Pokrant (2002). “The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual”, p.154, University of Regina Press

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• The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

  Ernest Becker

  Art, Personality, World

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.

  William-Adolphe Bouguereau

  Art, Purpose, Landscape

  "19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture", Sotheby's (Firm), p. 123, 1994.

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• Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Expression, Voice

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.

  Linda Chavez

  Success, Art, Creating

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