Works Of Art Quotes - Page 6

• In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

  E. O. Wilson

  Art, Science, Symphony

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• Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Stories, Detectives

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• Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Inspirational Life, Ideas

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• The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Art, Quality, Impossible

  "Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets". Book by Joel Shatzky, ‎Michael Taub, p. 302, 1999.

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• To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

  Joseph Beuys

  Teacher, Art

  Monika Angerbauer-Rau, Joseph Beuys (1998). “Beuys Kompass: ein Lexikon zu den Gesprächen von Joseph Beuys”, Dumont

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• Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Giving, Art Is

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• The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the psychological meaning of the tale (although this contributes to it) but from its literary qualities-the tale itself as a work of art.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Art, Quality, Enchantment

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

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• The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

  Beatrice Wood

  Art, America, Bridges

  Beatrice Wood (1989). “Intimate Appeal: The Figurative Art of Beatrice Wood : The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, 18 November 1989-18 February 1990, The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California, 19 June 1990-28 October 1990”

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• In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter of looking at the drawings, paintings, musical compositions, and poems that have been and are being created; it is a matter of being drawn into the individual work of art, of realizing that it has been made by a real human being, and trying to discover the secret of its creation.

  Ruth Whitman

  Art, Real, Drawing

  Ruth Whitman (1982). “Becoming a poet: source, process, practice”, Writer

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• The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. 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

  Wise, Art, Love Is

  Gore Vidal (2007). “Selected Essays”, Abacus Software

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• All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

  Clive Bell

  Art, People, Peculiar

  Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee

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• In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There, free of all images, the soul is fed in contemplation by the essences of the highest realm, knowing the permanent noumena of things. Then, satiated with this knowing, it descends again to the earthly realm. And precisely at the boundary between the two worlds, the soul’s spiritual knowledge assumes the shapes of symbolic imagery: and it is these images that make permanent the work of art. Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life.

  Pavel Florensky

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly but inexplicably moving toward perfection. We are each an unfinished work of art both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is a fine art of skilled penmanship where every single dot is equally important for the entire picture.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Art, Moving, Unfinished Work

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• Where the perhapses are found something has to be done about it and since art deals in the perhapses & maybe sos why not call it the consummate science — which gets its perfection from seeming imperfection.

  John Marin

  Art, Perfection, Why Not

  "John Marin".

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• When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows.
  And I’m dying to meet the artist.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Falling In Love, Art, Ocean

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• I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not necessarily in the cinema, but in the other arts as well, which have an encyclopaedic world.

  Peter Greenaway

  Art, Wish, Cinema

  Interview in Art and Design, no. 49,

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• Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

  Peter Greenaway

  Art, Finished

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

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• Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work
  is new, complex, and vital.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Diversity, Opinion

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.8, Prestwick House Inc

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• My art takes birth when my loneliness becomes my companion... when I take lives and deaths much personally and work when others play. When I meet myself and find that the truth of life is not the dream of tender age ... but the fire within me that creates the work of art.

  Jeet Aulakh

  Dream, Art, Loneliness

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• When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.

  Woody Allen

  Art, People, Humanity

  "Woody Allen, The Art of Humor No. 1". Interviewed with Michiko Kakutani, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 1995.

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• No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth.

  Vasily Smyslov

  Art, Truth, Games

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• No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Pain, Envy

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• The work of art is a scream of freedom.

  Christopher Lasch

  Art, Scream, Art Is

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• An exhibition is in many ways a series of conversations. Between the artist and viewer, curator and viewer, and between the works of art themselves. It clicks when an exhibition feels like it has answered some questions, and raised even more.

  Thelma Golden

  Art, Exhibitions, Way

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