Works Of Art Quotes - Page 38

• If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.

  P. K. Page

  Art, Rap, Giving

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• All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Poetry, Vision

  Honore De Balzac (2011). “Louis Lambert”, p.36, The Floating Press

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• It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Environment, Deals

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• But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Lying, Writing

  William Carlos Williams (1920). “Kora in Hell: Improvisations”

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• One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Future, Creating

  Edgar Degas (1995). “Edgar Degas: Paintings”

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• A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Matter, Beholder

  "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, p. 413, 'Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter), 1972.

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• Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Taken, Suits

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Research, Painting

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• The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

  Jean Cocteau

  Success, Art, Succeed

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• A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Beautiful, Art, Thinking

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

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• To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Forget

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• The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Simplicity, Scales

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.98, Vintage

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• We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Emotion, Wonderful

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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• A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Eye, Men

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• A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.

  Walter Pater

  Art, Elements, Blossoming

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Products, Calculations

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• I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Mystery, Good Work

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• True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Law, Manifestation

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• Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Eye, Judging

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• All works of art should begin... at the end.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Art, Ends, Should

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.3541, Delphi Classics

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• Is there in every work of art something which shows reality as one and also something which shows reality as many and diverse? - must every work of art have a simultaneous presence of oneness and manyness, unity and variety?

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Reality, Oneness

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• All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Mind, Essentials

  Henri Matisse, John M. Jacobus (1973). “Henri Matisse”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

  William Blake

  Art, Men, Perfection

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.451, Penguin

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• Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.

  George Lucas

  Art, Powerful, Greatness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Creativity, Desire

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