Works Of Art Quotes - Page 9

• A game of rugby is a work of art!

  Danie Craven

  Art, Games, Rugby

  "The Doctor knows best". "Sunday Times" Interview with Jani Allan, 1980s.

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• Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental art a peculiar concentration and vitality. At some time in the ninth century one could have looked down the Seine and seen the prow of a Viking ship coming up the river. Looked at today in the British Museum, it is a powerful work of art; but to the mother of a family trying to settle down in her little hut, it would have seemed less agreeable - as menacing to her civilisation as the periscope of a nuclear submarine.

  Kenneth Clark

  Mother, Art, Powerful

  "Civilisation" by Kenneth Clark, (Ch. 1), 1969.

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• Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Add, Process

  Robert Hughes (2013). “The Shock of the New”, Knopf

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• The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Art, Two

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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• Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art

  Robert Hughes

  Wisdom, Art, Australia

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• To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

  Laura Esquivel

  Art, Produce, Know How

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• A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but the child will surprise you continually. I think a work of art has its own aliveness, its own future.

  David Whyte

  Art, Children, Thinking

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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• Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or certain patterns of form or sound; for others, certain stories or places, Philip Levine's Detroit, Gwendolyn Brooks's Chicago, Seamus Heaney's time-tunneled, familied Ireland.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Art, Car, Sound

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.

  Pablo Casals

  Art, Taken, Spirit

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• Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist - what color to paint, what note to play, what word to use - in that artist's attempt to share what is in his or her soul. The audience is free to accept or reject those choices; it is emphatically not free to substitute its own.

  Leonard Pitts

  Art, Color, Play

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• The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Block, Needed

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• Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination.

  Rick Jarow

  Art, Crafts, Life Is

  Rick Jarow (1995). “Creating the Work You Love: Courage, Commitment, and Career”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Clumsiness, Certain

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• No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness of this discrepancy between his conception and the realization that assures his progress.

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Discrepancies Between, Progress

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• A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Gossip, People

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• Beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Beautiful, Art, Nursing

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• A race is a work of art.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Art, Race

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• ...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.

  William Morris

  Art, Clothes, House

  William Morris, May Morris “The Collected Works of William Morris: Hopes and fears for art. Lectures on art and industry”

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• To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

  Lillian Smith

  Life, Dream, Art

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• You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.

  Robert Dessaix

  Art, Order, Stuck

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on love that is only about the conquest of happiness, the effort to arrive at what we call love. It's the struggle that has always interested those who produce works of art - literature, cinema or poetry.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Art, Struggle, Love Is

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• Literal thousands of Americans taking to the road and getting into that green automobile and just going. At the same time there is real incredible work [of art] that comes out of it. Never forget that.

  Anne Waldman

  Art, Real, Green

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Struggle, Social

  Source: criticalflame.org

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• Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Speaks Out, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

  Axl Rose

  Song, Art, Responsibility

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