Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
A work of art is a confession.
A work of art is an exaggeration.
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.
The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.
Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.
In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art. There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance.
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