Works Of Art Quotes - Page 29

• I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Believe, Dark

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

  Pope John Paul II

  Art, Destiny, Light

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• Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.

  Terry Eagleton

  Art, Needs, Sensitive

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• The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.

  Steven Levy

  Fashion, Art, Interesting

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• Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

  Stefan Zweig

  Art, Power, Ephemeral

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• REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Work, Skills

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.300, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

  Henri Bergson

  Art, Work, Personality

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• What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Work, Posterity

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.512, Jester House Publishing

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• There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still more satisfactory, still more emotionally exciting discovery that the theory is not quite right and has to be worked over again, very much as any other work of art-a painting, a sculpture has to be worked over in the interests of aesthetic perfection. So there is no scientist who is not to some extent worthy of being described as artist or poet.

  Robert Watson-Watt

  Art, Science, Emotional

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• I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Believe, Here I Am

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.18, Convergent Books

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• It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

  George Orwell

  Religious, Art, Book

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.

  Allan Nevins

  Art, Past, Ideas

  Allan Nevins (1975). “Allan Nevins on history”

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• A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Unique, People

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.270, University of Chicago Press

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• The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Art Is, Spectators

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

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• Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

  Edmund Wilson

  Art, Appearance, Tricks

  Edmund Wilson (1951). “Memoirs of Hecate County”

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• The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.

  Daniel Dennett

  Art, Mistake, Mind

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Art, Character

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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• Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Art, Adults, Elements

  Thomas M. Disch (2005). “On SF”, p.141, University of Michigan Press

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• I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.

  P. D. James

  Art, Literature, Escapists

  P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.28, Faber & Faber

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• The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, America, Poetry

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.149, Penguin

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• The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Helping, Justification

  Bernard Berenson (1958). “Essays in Appreciation”

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• For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

  Joyce Cary

  Art, Hard Work, Essentials

  Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”

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• Some of our most powerful works of art have been produced by older Americans-by hands that have engaged in years of hard work, eyes that have witnessed decades of change, and hearts that have felt a lifetime of emotions. Our whole society benefits when older Americans use their talents and experiences to become involved in the arts as creators, teachers, mentors, volunteers, and audiences.

  Hillary Clinton

  Teacher, Art, Powerful

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• No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Abandoned, Art Is

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• Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Art, Transgression, Majors

  E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.41, Random House

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