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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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• 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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• 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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• Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work.

  John French Sloan

  Art, Men, Color

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• Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.

  Anton Webern

  Art, Mean, Law

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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• Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Use, Form

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• There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

  Richard Foreman

  Art, Truthful, Made

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• I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

  Barbara Goldsmith

  Art, Dollars, Guilty

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• Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?

  Chet Baker

  Art, Media, Greek

  Song: My Funny Valentine

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• Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

  Henry Flynt

  Art, Taste, Saws

  "Towards An Acognitive Culture". Interview with Stewart Home, www.stewarthomesociety.org. March 8, 1989.

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• Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

  Lukas Foss

  Art, Influence, Found

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• Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.

  Lukas Foss

  Art, Stars, Personality

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• A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Art, Perception, Audience

  "A life in cinema: Abbas Kiarostami" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2009.

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• The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Art, Philosophy, Medicine

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.174, Routledge

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• When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.

  Waylon Jennings

  Romantic, Beautiful, Girl

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• To create a work of art is to create the world.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, World, Art Is

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• As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

  Richard Louv

  Falling In Love, Art, Children

  Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.9, Algonquin Books

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• The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

  Adolf Loos

  Art, People, House

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• Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.

  Aristotle

  God, Art, Men

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• What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

  Miuccia Prada

  Art, Reality, Interest

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  Zack Snyder

  Art, Real, Drawing

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 01, 2007.

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• If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.

  Katherine Paterson

  Art, Believe, Book

  Katherine Paterson (1981). “Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Art, Pay, Art Is

  Jeffrey Archer (2014). “Be Careful What You Wish For”, p.131, Pan Macmillan

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• The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Bidding, Repeats

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.138, Courier Corporation

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• It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.

  Guy Davenport

  Art, Real, Successful

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