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• The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

  Adolf Loos

  Art, House, Comfort

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• Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems ... Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen ... [W]hat makes a work of art 'good' for you is not something that is already 'inside' it, but something that happens inside you.

  Brian Eno

  Art, Thinking, Quality

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• You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Art, Ifs

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.

  Marianne Moore

  Art, Creativity, Energy

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• A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Art, Atmosphere, Portraits

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• Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

  Paul Schrader

  Art, Screenplays, Invitations

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• When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Important, Compare

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• As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks

  Clive James

  Wisdom, Art, Two

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• Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of a close-knit group of initiates. They are the soul food of all people.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Art, People, Soul

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• W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.

  Brian Eno

  Art, Hats, Happens

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• A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Art, Moving, Eye

  "Faith Into Action: Thoughts on Selected Topics". Book by Daisaku Ikeda, 1999.

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• I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Art, Soul, Body

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Thinking, Two

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• The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

  Niklas Luhmann

  Art, Art Is, Improbable

  Niklas Luhmann (2000). “Art as a Social System”, p.153, Stanford University Press

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• The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when the building is finished, the completed structure leads by simple arguments to an unexpected conclusion. Every Besicovitch proof is a work of art, as carefully constructed as a Bach fugue.

  Freeman Dyson

  Beauty, Art, Simple

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• Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.

  Muriel Barbery

  Art, Writing, Gestures

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• When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Education, Teacher, Art

  "The Real Problem With Waiting for 'Superman'" by Aaron Swartz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times...

  Franz Marc

  Art, Mind, Guarantees

  "The 'Savages' of Germany". Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) Almanak, Munich, 1912.

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• No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.

  Egon Schiele

  Art, Erotic, Filth

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• I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Hate, Long

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• We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (there is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Order, Looks

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

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• The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Movement, Force

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.66, MIT Press

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• A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Fall, Age

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• I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style is very linked to the fact that it is a work of art on the wall. I had to find a way to write in concise, effective phrases that people standing or walking into a room could read.

  Sophie Calle

  Art, Wall, Writing

  Interview with Louise Neri, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 7, 2009.

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• Sam Fuller and 'Shock Corridor' can only be conjured as a mantra. 'Shock Corridor' is a classic work of art - it's unique. It comes from the unique experience of being Sam Fuller and yes, there's always that element of 'Shock Corridor' hovering around the picture, but never specifically. In fact, I didn't even screen it because it's in us. It's in me anyway. It's in me. It was a way of conjuring up support just by saying the name, 'Shock Corridor,' as I was going to shoot. Poor Sam [Fuller]...

  Martin Scorsese

  Art, Unique, Names

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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