Works Of Art Quotes

• 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.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Believe, Order

  1951 Two Cheers for Democracy,'Art for Art's Sake'.

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• An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Abandon, Artist

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• Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Art, Inspiration

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• The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Strong, Knowing

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• A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

  Louis Nizer

  Beautiful, Art, Old Lady

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• One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Oscar Wilde (2011). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.67, BoD – Books on Demand

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• 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.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Dream, Art, Escaping

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• Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

  Edgar Degas

  Beauty, Dance, Art

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• The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

  Emile Zola

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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?

  Michel Foucault

  Art, House, Facts

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• 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.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, Moving, Ideas

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• 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.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Motivational, Success, Time

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• A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Creativity, Emotion

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• The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

  Michelangelo

  Christian, Art, Shadow Work

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• The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Work, Engineering

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• Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

  Claude Debussy

  Art, Musician, Classical Music

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• A work of art is a confession.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Confession, Art Is

  Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

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• A work of art is an exaggeration.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Art Is, Exaggeration

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• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Happy, Art, Feelings

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.10, Princeton University Press

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• The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

  James Joyce

  Art, Spring, Doe

  James Joyce (2016). “JAMES JOYCE Premium Collection: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Chamber Music & Exiles”, p.386, e-artnow

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• 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.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Family

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 19, 2016

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• 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.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, World, Way

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Work, Merit

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• In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Creativity, Creative

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.15, Souvenir Press

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• 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.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Art, Fun, Distance

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