Works Of Art Quotes - Page 36

• The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Love Is, Creation

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Demand, Way

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

  Erwin McManus

  Art, Artist, Behinds

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

  Erwin McManus

  Art, Artist

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2014). “The Artisan Soul: Crafting Your Life into a Work of Art”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

  Simone Weil

  Art

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.206, Routledge

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• A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

  Erwin McManus

  Art, Life Well Lived, Wells

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation. Star Trek and Spock, if they are works of art, can be discussed. But finally the response comes in individual terms. Each viewer sees what is there for him, depending on his frame of reference.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Art, Stars, Inspiration

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• I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon this philistine equation between literature and liberalism and human goodness, and pay some attention to the darker, ambiguous, and often muddled energies and motivations that shape a work of art. If we do this, we can appreciate a writer like Céline or Gottfried Benn without worrying whether they conform to existing notions of political incorrectness.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Art, Motivation, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Every human being is a work of art.

  Wolf Vostell

  Art, Humans, Human Beings

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• Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.

  Kent Nerburn

  Life, Art, Our Lives

  Kent Nerburn (2009). “The Hidden Beauty of Everyday Life”, p.66, New World Library

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• Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Book, Reading

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• Experiment - exercising to see the result. We planned Europa not as an experiment in this sense but as a work of art. Yet The Eye and the Ear was done as a consciously designed experiment. Not every avant-garde dealt with experiments and not every experiment equalled avant-garde.

  Stefan Themerson

  Art, Eye, Exercise

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• The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.

  Huston Smith

  Art, World, Great Work

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.77, Univ of California Press

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• To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Past, Greek

  Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

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• Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view. Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Clever, Mean

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Three (April 23, 1903), 1929.

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• Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Art, Humility, Greatness

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.335

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• For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport that which is "grave and constant" (Joyce's epithets) in the mystery of our condition.

  George Steiner

  Art, Writing, Musical

  George Steiner (1991). “Real Presences”, p.224, University of Chicago Press

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• What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Art, Honor, Tradition

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks The Lookout". www.movieweb.com. March 26, 2007.

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• A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

  Michael Heizer

  Art, Strong, People

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• One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

  Edward Lucie-Smith

  Art, Different, May

  Edward Lucie-Smith (1980). “Art in the seventies”

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• Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.

  Alfred Brendel

  Art, Order, Giving

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• Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

  Itay Talgam

  Art, Two, Special

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• Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great works of art rely on the eye of contemplation, the eye of the spirit.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Eye, Mind

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• A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside of itself - or else it belongs to the field of illustration.

  John F. Carlson

  Beautiful, Art, Illustration

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• Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.

  Robert Genn

  Fashion, Art, Critics

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