Works Of Art Quotes - Page 3

• A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, World, Emotion

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.59, MIT Press

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• Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.

  Mark Helprin

  Art, Differences, Kentucky

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• There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Overcoming, Doe

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• Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Inspirational, Teacher, Art

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

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• You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Energy, Portraits

  "Marina Abramovic Talks 'The Artist is Present,' Her Thoughts On Censorship, Art & More". Interview with Cristopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Art, Anger, Order

  Charles Horton Cooley (2015). “Life and the Student: Roadside Notes on Human Nature, Society, and Letters”, p.61, Transaction Publishers

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• Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Sentimental, Emotion

  Jean Cocteau (1926). “A call to order: written between the years 1918 and 1926 and including Cock and harlequin, Professional secrets, and other critical essays”, Haskell House Pub Ltd

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• Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.

  Joseph Beuys

  Art, Quality, Principles

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• We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

  Clive Bell

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

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• A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Air, Rose

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• All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Believe, Simple

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• The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Thinking, Littles

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.236, Transaction Publishers

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• A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Art, Travel, Adventure

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• Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

  Richard Roeper

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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• The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

  David Rockefeller

  Art, Past, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Running, Art

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• A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Price Tag, Theory

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• I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art.

  Joe Perry

  Art, Warrior, Rifles

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• The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

  Pope Paul VI

  Art, Lust, Crystals

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• For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.

  Apolo Ohno

  Art, Car, Rolling

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• There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Character, May

  "Off the Page: Joyce Carol Oates". The WashingtonPost Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. October 24, 2003.

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• I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Book, Playing Games

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Sacrifice, Remember

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.161, Univ of California Press

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• When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

  Billy Joel

  Art, Portraits, Looks

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• I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.

  Jewel

  Art, Mean, Trying

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