Works Of Art Quotes - Page 5

• Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.

  John French Sloan

  Art, Generosity, Students

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• The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Art, Self, Connected

  Kurt Schwitters, Werner Schmalenbach, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (1965). “Kurt Schwitters: a retrospective exhibition”

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• The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.

  Mervyn Levy

  Art, Personality, Spectators

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• To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.

  Thomas Hoving

  Art, Appreciate, Experts

  Thomas Hoving (2011). “Art For Dummies”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons

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• Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

  Eric Gibbons

  Art, Sadness, Difficult Situations

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• The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Jobs, Children

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• I view all art as an effort to translate brain concepts into a work. These brain concepts are synthetic ones - the result of many experiences. But a single work of art, or even a series of works, more often than not cannot translate these synthetic concepts adequately. Yves Saint Laurent once said that he suffered greatly when creating. He is not alone in that. Most artists do the same and say as much.

  Semir Zeki

  Art, Views, Creating

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• ... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psychology, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Art, Thinking, Psychology

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• All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.

  Adolf Loos

  Art, Lying, Erotic

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• Each one of us is God's special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts all those who view our lives.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Uplifting, Faith, Art

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2011). “Secret Strength: For Those Who Search”, p.69, Multnomah

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• There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Art, Policemen, Understood

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• We're creating multiple personas. We're creating a thespian sense of personality where we see ourselves as works of art, and we see everything in our environment as a prop, as a set, as a stage, as a backdrop for filling ourselves in. We don't see ourselves as ever completed. We are in-formation.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Art, Technology, Creating

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• Leo's goals are works of art.

  Frank Rijkaard

  Art, Goal

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• Every work of art is about everything.

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Fairness, Art Is

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• The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Kind

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• The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

  Henry Green

  Art, Miracle, Should

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• A work of art is a renewable source of energy.

  Brice Marden

  Art, Energy, Source

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• Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Art, Men, Expression

  Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, Waltraud Suzuki (1983). “Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education”, p.82, Alfred Music

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• Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Art, May

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Expression, Feelings

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Art, Tangible, Painting

  Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (2017). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.19, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.

  Andy Rooney

  Christmas, Art, Feelings

  Andy Rooney (2003). “Common Nonsense”, p.38, PublicAffairs

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• It's about time you admitted that you are a miraculous work of art. You came into this world as a radiant bundle of exuberant riddles. You slipped into this dimension as a shimmering burst of spiral hallelujahs. You blasted into this realm as a lush explosion of ecstatic gratitude. And it is your birthright to fulfill those promises.

  Rob Brezsny

  Gratitude, Art, Promise

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• Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some of the greatest works of art and the most important works of peace were created by people who had no need for the limelight. They knew that what they were doing was their call, and they did it with great patience, perseverance, and love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Perseverance, Art, Real

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• Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

  Donald Miller

  Art, People, Batteries

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