Works Of Art Quotes - Page 13

• no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

  Uta Hagen

  Art, Static, Performances

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• Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

  Le Corbusier

  Art, Mean, Fate

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• I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed. Beyond the meaning (of a work of art), it is important to people. Without it, lives can be dull.

  Stan Lee

  Art, People, Important

  "Stan Lee: Interview with the creator". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. April 24, 2014.

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• A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Hard Work, Paris

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.138, Convergent Books

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• Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Self, Holiness

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• I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.

  Edward Gordon Craig

  Art, Believe, Play

  Edward Gordon Craig (2008). “On the Art of the Theatre”, p.25, Routledge

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• To begin with, I hold that there is never an end; everything of which our life is composed, pictures and books as much as anything else, is a means only, in the sense that the work of art exists in the body of the movement of life. It may be a strong factor of progress and direction, but we cannot say that it is the end or reason of things, for it is so much implicated with them ; and when we are speaking of art we suddenly find that we are talking of life all the time.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Strong, Book

  Wyndham Lewis (1939). “Wyndham Lewis the Artist”, p.323, Ardent Media

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• Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Art, Feelings, Very True

  Quoted in William Vaughn Romantic Art (1978).

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• A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in the depth of a person's being.. ..It is my belief that only in this Art Brut can we find the natural and normal processes of artistic creation in their pure and elementary state.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Art, Depth, Normal

  "Prospectus et tous écrits suivants". Book by Jean Dubuffet, Vol. II, pp. 203-204, 1967.

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• Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.

  Robert Nozick

  Art, Humble, Needs

  Robert Nozick (1994). “The Nature of Rationality”, p.181, Princeton University Press

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• An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Art, Two, Giving

  Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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• It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not allowed to account for a work of art mainly by tracing where it comes from, they would have to deal with it in and by itself--which is what they are most needed for.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Years, Twenties

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.247, Univ of California Press

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• Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.

  Walter Benjamin

  Art, Ritual, Dependence

  "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction". Book by Walter Benjamin, 1939.

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• If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Dream, Art, Children

  Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).

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• Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

  E. L. James

  Art, Moving, Ivory Tower

  "Fifty Shades from Christian’s Point of View: Includes Grey and Darker". Book by E. L. James, 2017.

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• You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

  Carl Andre

  Art, People, Creative

  "Artists Talks 1969 - 1977". Book edited by Peggy Gale, 2004.

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• Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Art, Care

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.3642, Delphi Classics

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• Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.

  Jacques Maritain

  Art, Lying, Mean

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• With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

  Sydney Pollack

  Art, Creating, Culture

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• The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity.

  Ferdinand Hodler

  Art, Light, Order

  "Artists on Art, from the XIV to the XX Century: 100 Illustrations". Book by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, Pantheon books, 1947.

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• Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.

  Arnold Aronson

  Art, Postmodernism, Bases

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• Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.

  PZ Myers

  Art, Knives, Cabinets

  "Atheism ≠ Fascism". freethoughtblogs.com. June 12, 2011.

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• Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.

  Amedeo Modigliani

  Art, Reality, Views

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• The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality... ...The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never created a work of art which possesses a lasting cultural value. The method leading to universal form is based upon calculations of measure and number.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Art, Numbers, Individuality

  "Elementarism". De Stijl - Van Doesburg Issue, p. 17 - 19, January 1932.

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• The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Self, Law

  Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer (1997). “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, p.19, Verso

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