Works Of Art Quotes - Page 6

• How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Art, Should, Settings

  Francis August Schaeffer (1973). “Art & the Bible: Two Essays”, Intervarsity Press

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• This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work of art which you have the insight, sensitivity, and — like it or not — peculiar set of experiences to appreciate. Amazing thing to say, the consolation of horror in art is that it actually intensifies our panic, loudens it on the sounding-board of our horror-hollowed hearts, turns terror up full blast, all the while reaching for that perfect and deafening amplitude at which we may dance to the bizarre music of our own misery.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Art, Appreciate, Perfect

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• If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.

  Karen Armstrong

  Art, Our World, Self

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• All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Real, Joy

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that’s only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we’re all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism.

  Tom Robbins

  Beautiful, Art, Crazy

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.298, Bantam

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• Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Art, Looks

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• The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Work, Needs

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.192, Penguin

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• After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.

  Alex Scarrow

  Art, Real, Mind

  "TimeRiders: The Eternal War". Book by Alex Scarrow, July 14, 2011.

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• Kaldar smiled at her. Now there was a work of art. If she were just a girl and he were just a man, and they met at a party, that smile would've guaranteed him a date. The man was hot. There was no doubt. But right now, all it would get him was a solid punch in those even teeth. Audrey laughed. "Aren't you sweet? Tell me, do girls usually throw their panties at you when you do that?" He grinned wider, and she glimpsed the funny evil spark in his eyes. "Do men throw money when you do your little Southern belle?

  Ilona Andrews

  Girl, Sweet, Art

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.103, NYLA

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• Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me - the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.

  Anais Nin

  Country, Art, War

  "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

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• I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, Self Love, Experiments

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

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• The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.

  Scott Lynch

  Art, Men, Mirrors

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.675, Del Rey

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• There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Art, Book, Details

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• We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Art, Errors, Keys

  "Mastery". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic, www.poemhunter.com.

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• He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely transcended the everyday. And this would annihilate the effects of the cruel drug, boredom, to which he was addicted although, perhaps, the element of boredom which is implicit in an affair so isolated from the real world was its principle appeal for him.

  Angela Carter

  Art, Real, Order

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.

  William Gaddis

  Art, Creating, Feelings

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• I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

  Jennifer Egan

  Life, Art, Flames

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.98, Anchor

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• No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.

  William Goldman

  Dream, Art, Lucky

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.84, A&C Black

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• Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.

  Ted Shawn

  Dance, Art, Men

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• From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

  Michel Foucault

  Art, Thinking, Self

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• We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

  Lana Del Rey

  Art, Gains, Nothing To Lose

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• When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Stars, Confused

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• I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Art, Thinking, Ifs

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• If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

  Jodi Picoult

  Art, Circles, Imagination

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.459, Simon and Schuster

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• In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

  Novalis

  Art, Order, Veils

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